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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;whopper64, post: 7755839, member: 101364&quot;]Not as bad as some of the horror stories, because at least the coin stayed in the family.&nbsp; In the late 50&#039;s I worked in my father&#039;s grocery store.&nbsp; One of my jobs was to deliver groceries to shut-in&#039;s in the surrounding neighborhood.&nbsp; One of the elderly ladies had a huge water bottle (5 gallon?) filled with old coins.&nbsp; She tipped me with coins from the jar.&nbsp; One day she tipped me a penny (what, just one cent? to my young innocent mind), and she told me that it was worth much more but didn&#039;t say how much more.&nbsp; To make a long story a little shorter, my father had instructed me to give him all the old coins and he&#039;d repay me with current coins double their face value.&nbsp; Good deal, right?&nbsp; So wrong.&nbsp; The penny that I was given was a 1909 s v.d .b.&nbsp; My father said it was worth a dollar so to me that was instant riches!&nbsp; At least my father, when he sold it, used the money (never found out what he sold it for in the mid 60&#039;s) to help the family move from PA to GA.&nbsp; My loss, but the family&#039;s gain.&nbsp; The reason I remember it was that I noticed the &quot;s&quot; and the v.d .b on the reverse.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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