It's a small world after all.

lordmarcovan

Today I made a brief stop at the antique mall on my way home from work.

I knew I'd run out of wooden dollars in the drawer there. I had my own wooden dollars printed up by the Old Time Wooden Nickel Company about a year or two ago, and I use them as business cards and/or promo items. They're in a drawer that says "Take One", down at my coin booth in the antique mall. I noticed they were all gone on the last visit.

So today I brought the original UPS box they'd shipped from the manufacturer in, and refilled the drawer.

As I was pouring them into the drawer, I noticed an oddball stowaway in the box. My latest batch are printed in red, with a Morgan dollar design on one side. This one was printed in blue. It has the modern Bison nickel design on it.

It says, "John C. Knudsen, Numismatist" on it.

Now, out of the millions of wooden nickels that company undoubtedly prints every year, what are the odds that...

1) The one that snuck into my box would be from another coin dealer? They market to all kinds of companies, not just the numismatic trade.

2) It would be not just from another coin dealer, but one I happen to have done business with several times, and...

3) ... not just somebody I know, but a forum member, and a Darksider, and...

4) ... not just a Darksider, but the person who's probably second-most responsible (behind Aethelred) for getting me interested in Roman coins two years ago (perhaps around the time I ordered the wooden dollars)?

John's wooden nickel was down at the bottom of my box, so I know it wasn't something I got from him which accidentally got mixed into mine. It had to have happened at the factory.

Weird, huh?

Aethelred

<< <i>4) ... not just a Darksider, but the person who's probably second-most responsible (behind Aethelred) for getting me interested in Roman coins two years ago >>



D'oh, sorry!

lordmarcovan

Eh, I was inclined to that particular insanity anyway. It would have happened sooner or later, without you.

Aethelred

<< <i>Eh, I was inclined to that particular insanity anyway. It would have happened sooner or later, without you. >>



Yeah, and Lincoln would have died sooner or later without Booth, but....

ajaan

You guy need to get a room or something?

Aethelred

Eww!

lordmarcovan

I need a room.

I wouldn't wanna share it with him, though. He has even more coins and books and clutter than I do. I saw his basement.

At least he has a basement. Basements don't exist down here in the Low Country.

I sure wish I had somewhere to call my "office", instead of a small corner of the combination living room/kitchen in our tiny mobile home. No wonder stuff gets buried in the clutter so much. We've got plenty of land out here in the boondocks, but not much house.

TwoKopeiki

You saw his basement?

savoyspecial

"It's puts the lotion on"

lordmarcovan

<< <i>You saw his basement? >>



Yes. Ye Dead King's Dungeon is suitably spooky, too.

But I'm still jealous of all that space he has down there for his clutter.

Very fascinating clutter, I might add.

wybrit

FilamCoins

<< <i>"It's puts the lotion on" >>



Good one! Great movie.

FilamCoins

I have one of your wooden dollars around here somewhere.