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<p>[QUOTE="borgovan, post: 553120, member: 13016"]By the way, here's the ultimate pocket piece:</p><p> </p><p>From the San Francisco Chronicle:</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">"John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocket. It was the most expensive dime ever to pass through San Jose. That's because it is the most expensive dime in the history of dimes. </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">'All the way across the country, I didn't sleep,'' Feigenbaum said. "I didn't eat, and I didn't sleep. You wouldn't, either.' </font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">Feigenbaum is a rare-coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying across the country, from San Jose to New York, is an 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to exist and one of only 24 known to be coined that year in<font face="Verdana"> San Francisco." </font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font> </p><p><font face="Verdana">You can read the rest of the story at:</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Verdana">http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/27/MNG9GR85OG1.DTL</font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="borgovan, post: 553120, member: 13016"]By the way, here's the ultimate pocket piece: From the San Francisco Chronicle: [FONT=Verdana]"John Feigenbaum flew out of San Jose this week in first class with flip-flops on his feet, a T-shirt on his back and a dime worth $1.9 million in his pocket. It was the most expensive dime ever to pass through San Jose. That's because it is the most expensive dime in the history of dimes. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]'All the way across the country, I didn't sleep,'' Feigenbaum said. "I didn't eat, and I didn't sleep. You wouldn't, either.' [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]Feigenbaum is a rare-coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying across the country, from San Jose to New York, is an 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to exist and one of only 24 known to be coined that year in[FONT=Verdana] San Francisco." [/FONT] [/FONT][FONT=Verdana][/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]You can read the rest of the story at:[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][/FONT][FONT=Verdana]http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/27/MNG9GR85OG1.DTL [/FONT][/QUOTE]
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