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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;alhenry92, post: 26036442, member: 31911&quot;]Thanks! I miss that Jeep a lot, had to sell it at a point in time because we lost storage for it.</p><p><br /></p><p>But back to the subject at hand; in short: racketeering is fraud. Which, according to the legend of Josh Tatum (allegedly a deaf mute) was the use of the golden plated 1883 Liberty Nickel as he was passing them off as $5 gold coins after becoming friends with a guy who was good at electroplating. When he’d go to get 5 cent cigars, he’d get $4.95 back in change every time he’d done so and at some point that caught up with him even though he had no idea what was going on.</p><p>The story goes that once he was caught and being brought up for the charges of racketeering using illegal/counterfeit currency, no one would, or even could say anything about it because he couldn’t hear or talk, and so he was exonerated of all charges. The story has never been confirmed to be real or true, but it’s what inspired the name of the “Racketeering Nickel.” It was also suggested that his name inspired the use of the phrase “Just Joshin” when you were kidding around/messing with someone[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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