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Message:: [QUOTE="Hookman, post: 3591871, member: 99642"]I have a $10 coin that I acquired in 2011 for....$10.00 !I was working retail, a customer presented the coin to pay with. The cashier didn't know it and called a manager. The manager didn't know the coin, but seeing some of the same things on the coin [Lady Liberty, a version of In God We Trust (Trust In God), a Torch, etc.] she assumed, wrongly, that this was just a U.S. coin she was unfamiliar with.(It was these similarities that got NotHaus charged with counterfeiting.) The manager allowed the customer to use the coin for her purchase. The next day the store manager freaked when he saw the coin because he knew better. He didn't want to have to explain to the upper brass how one of his managers took a counterfeit coin as legal tender. When I saw the coin, I didn't know anything about NORFED, but I could certainly read "ONE OUNCE 999 FINE SILVER". I offered to swap a $10 bill for the coin.At the time (2011) Silver was $32.00 an ounce. So I got my $10 back with a $22 profit. I checked eBay and those were selling for about $64.00 each back then.I still have the coin, but, as we all know, silver is a mere $15.00 +/- per nowadays.The coin value has dropped also, though they are still sold on eBay for more than melt.I'm still ahead on my cost, and I have an interesting tale to tell. So it's all good.[/QUOTE]