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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 1851264, member: 18320&quot;]Well...absent any floor-mats or other hindrances to face-flopping, one can easily imagine on the roads of yesteryear were a jouncy ride.</p><p><br /></p><p>I grew up where paved streets were the norm, but in the back-country (my grandparents lived off the grid in eastern San Diego County) rutted, narrow, winding roads (where Dad sounded the horn regularly at blind corners when we drove to visit) were common...and the ride, even in a &#039;40 Chevy, was far from smooth.</p><p><br /></p><p>Grandpa drove what he called a &#039;Tin Lizzy&#039;, which wasn&#039;t much more than a motorized bucket of rust.&nbsp; It weren&#039;t a Ford, but that&#039;s all I can say with certainty.&nbsp; Grandma wouldn&#039;t get in it for fear of losing her life through failure of the mechanical brakes on those treacherous roads.&nbsp; She was adamant; he went in it alone, always.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe such a platform would have provided ample opportunity for the envisioned coin to be flipped from obverse to reverse...perhaps several times during the ride to town for groceries, kerosene &amp; ammunition, all of which he traded for rabbit pelts and sacks of oak leaf-mold gathered from the creek bed near the spring.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, for him the loss of a dollar would have been a significant and painful event...so it would have been pursued, and found.</p><p><br /></p><p>But perhaps for others not so important, and probably soon forgotten...abandoned to ride beneath the seat &#039;till worn smooth by the constant and abrasive motion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I submit this is a high probable by way of explanation of the unusual wear on this Peace Dollar...but who can know the truth?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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