indeed.
Funny story, husband bought this samurai sword with a reverse blade at a fanime convention on 2007 for $60-$100, he doesn't remember.
My dad's friend is a big sword guy, and Mike saw the blade today (We left the swords in my folk's place rather than move with them) and he says that it might be a legit WWII Japanese sword smuggled out of Japan and redone to hide its value. If Mike's right, it could be worth between $4-20K.
Like holy shit.
Maybe the universe has forgiven us.