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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bacchus, post: 54022, member: 759&quot;]I’ll bet.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>If this story is true (which I doubt), </i>I’m guessing these coins were stolen.&nbsp; Otherwise, I agree the story looks like a tourist come-on, judging by the “Curaco is a wonderful island” paragraph.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is that the government there has seeded these coins for relatively cheap publicity.&nbsp; They could buy a thousand ASEs for probably $9000 (today’s prices; cheaper four years ago, I imagine) and distribute them.&nbsp; That might be cheaper than buying magazine ads.&nbsp; I don’t give this possibility much credit, because the ASEs aren’t known well enough in mainstream America.&nbsp; But, I don’t believe they would last four years.&nbsp; <i>Somebody </i>would have snagged them by now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fun story, though.&nbsp; We’d like to believe it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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