After Enkidoh posted I decided to take a few screen shots of all the locations. When I got to Gerolt the quest was up again. I went through the dialog, FOR A SECOND TIME and got the coffer.

This was my FOURTH visit to Gerolt attempting to trouble shoot the problem. So:
1. A server reset fixed it.
2. My bug report prompted a fix
3. It just fixed itself

At any rate thanks again for those that took the time to dialog with me on this.

Cheers!