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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VistaCruiser69, post: 25415770, member: 107016&quot;]Ok, here I’ll point it out.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1627938[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The story behind that is:&nbsp; My mother worked as a waitress in the Buena Vista in Fisherman&#039;s Wharf in San Francisco throughout the entire decade of the 70&#039;s.&nbsp; She worked the shift from like 6pm until closing (2am).&nbsp; She was there the night that the original Pier 39 burned down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyways, she&#039;d get coins from around the world from tourists who came in to try the world-famous Buena Vista Irish coffee, amount other food and drink.</p><p><br /></p><p>She&#039;d give me the foreign coins and that&#039;s what got me going on coin collecting at a very young age.&nbsp; I had accumulated a pretty sizable pile of foreign coins by the time I was like 7 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>So fast forward to around the mid-80&#039;s while I&#039;m a kid working in restaurants during the summer vacation from school, washing dishes, preparing food, etc. etc. I worked at a restaurant at the airport.&nbsp; So talking with retired pilots who were regulars, I&#039;d sometimes talk to them about coins.&nbsp; One such person I was talking to about coins told me about the dollar bill with a mushroom on it, saying it was worth a fortune if I found one.&nbsp; I sat there looking all over the front of that dollar bill.&nbsp; The customer was giving me clues such as, you may need to turn the bill a curtain way for the light to hit it just right in order to see it.&nbsp; I looked at that bill for like 10 minutes, so determined to find the mushroom.</p><p><br /></p><p>Eventually I gave up and said:&nbsp; &quot;ok, where&#039;s the mushroom?&quot;&nbsp; The person then folded the bill and BOOM!&nbsp; There it is.&nbsp; LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another pilot did something similar with a $10 bill.&nbsp; Told me that there&#039;s a hitch hiker standing on the reverse side of the bill in front of the building somewhere.&nbsp; I looked at it for a bit and then gave up.&nbsp; He took the bill, looked at it and then commented:&nbsp; &quot;Oh, he&#039;s gone, someone picked him up.&quot;&nbsp; LOL</p><p><br /></p><p>They also showed me a couple of neat tricks with coins as well.&nbsp; One of these days I&#039;ll post them up on here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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