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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 24686066, member: 10461&quot;]Imagine this scenario.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is WW2 and a bunch of bored GIs are aboard a ship in the Pacific.&nbsp; To while away the hours with some low-stakes gambling, everyone antes up a penny, and they have someone write everybody&#039;s name on each cent in India ink.&nbsp; After the ink dries, the cents go into a helmet, and one is withdrawn.</p><p><br /></p><p>The winning name was Robbins, let&#039;s say.&nbsp; Robbins didn&#039;t spend the cents on his next liberty, but instead kept them all as mementos of his shipmates, some of whom might not have survived the battle they were sailing toward.</p><p><br /></p><p>Robbins lived to a ripe old age and died, and his bag of marked cents got dumped back into circulation (or more likely, taken in bulk to a coin dealer) by his heirs, only to be sold in a bulk bag of Wheaties, where you found four of them.&nbsp; Originally there would have been many more in the lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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