Woman puts gold coin in parking meter....

Clankeye

Woman puts gold coin in parking meter by mistake. CNN

Hope this hasn't been posted before.

XpipedreamR

Only on the Open Forum

MadMarty

Oops!!!

Hey XpipedreamR, how dare you pick on the bard! Next story (there will be another story right Clank)you better watch it.. You may get a "POW right in the Frankies!"

wingedliberty

Oh, thats just sweet. Thanks for sharing.

nwcs

I read about that. That's what happens when non collectors have good coins..

alergar

Tootawl

ScarsdaleCoin

next story next day...woman arrested for smashing open parking meter

khayse

See, if we took away the drivers license of every old person this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

-Khayse

Clankeye

I'll bet you anything though, this woman would be one tough negotiator on the bourse floor.

lordmarcovan

Posted on the Darkside a few times, too.


An "1890 Kruger sovereign".

Whatinhell are they talking about? The South African Republic didn't strike sovereigns. The British did strike sovereigns in South Africa, but not until the 1920's, and those didn't have Kruger on them. The South Africans did strike gold 1/2-pond and 1-pond pieces with Kruger's portrait, but not in 1892.

And none of those possibilities would be worth "over $1000", anyway.



Looks like the typical garbled nonsense that comes into the mainstream media and gets repeated over and over without anyone checking any facts. Like the 1943 cent hoopla that was circulated by Paul Harvey and others, a few years back. How many dealers remember that ? Raise your hands. I was in Bill Wright's Asheville coin shop one day and they fielded over a hundred phone calls from people with "rare" 1943 "silver pennies". Oh, yeah- and one lady with an 1806 Indian head cent. Yes, that's right. She was absolutely positive. It was dated 1806, and not 1906.

Clankeye

Yes, in truth LM, I was kind of thinking it might all be a crock.