Dime worth $1.9 million makes it across country

[pcslookout]

One of only nine

 

[Phokus]

Scrooge McDuck's lucky dime?

 

[YoungGun21]

I have the other 8.

 

[Gunslinger08]

$57,000 for a 5 or 6 hour flight. Not bad.

 

[kranky]

I once met someone who owns one of the other examples. Didn't get to see it though (these things don't come out of bank vaults unless they are changing hands).

 

[Yongsta]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
$57,000 for a 5 or 6 hour flight. Not bad.

I would love to have that job.

 

[Mr Incognito]

Originally posted by: Yongsta

Originally posted by: joshsquall
$57,000 for a 5 or 6 hour flight. Not bad.

I would love to have that job.

It's easier and more legal than a comparable drug deal!

 

[Miramonti]

Originally posted by: Yongsta

Originally posted by: joshsquall
$57,000 for a 5 or 6 hour flight. Not bad.

I would love to have that job.

Most likely he's getting paid for more than a flight, but for choosing to become a top coin dealer by vigorously studying coins and building relationships with customers and collectors over many years.

If that seems like more work than its worth, then perhaps being a simple drug mule would be more attractive.

 

[MrPickins]

Originally posted by: Phokus
Scrooge McDuck's lucky dime?

:laugh:

Ahh, the memories...

 

[Squisher]

I'd be choking the whole time it was going through the xray machine until I got to the other side and saw it was still in the basket.

 

[weirdichi]

Meh. I thought the story was gonna be about how the dime made it across the country by vendors giving change. Did I even make any sense with that sentence?

 

[TheSlamma]

1.9M for that? sounds silly to me.

 

[RaistlinZ]

At the end of the day it's still a dime, regardless of how many were produced that particular year.

I wouldn't pay more than $0.10 for it.

 

[SirStev0]

apparently the story of why there is only 9 is suppose to be really interesting... google didnt help me find it though.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: SirStev0
apparently the story of why there is only 9 is suppose to be really interesting... google didnt help me find it though.

The story.

 

[TallBill]

Blah neither site will load for me.

 

[Safeway]

Pfffffffffft. I have a dinky piece of cotton worth one hundred dollars.

 

[Indolent]

Originally posted by: kranky
I once met someone who owns one of the other examples. Didn't get to see it though (these things don't come out of bank vaults unless they are changing hands).

I don't really understand the point of owning one then. Maybe that's why I'm not a coin collector.

 

[dugweb]

Originally posted by: RaistlinZ
At the end of the day it's still a dime, regardless of how many were produced that particular year.

I wouldn't pay more than $0.10 for it.

I think (coin) collectors may as well be called investors. Would you pay 1.9 mil for a coin if someone would pay twice that 10 years down the road?

at least, that's the only way I can see rationalizing spending so much money on an otherwise silly hobby.

 

[ForumMaster]

my friend founnd a 1920 dime in his backyard. he cleaned it and keeps it. probably worth something as well.

 

[Jeffwo]

Feigenbaum said he put the dime, which is encased in a 3-inch-square block of plastic, in his jeans pocket.

:Q