Since you all seem SOO interested in ripping apart this true story, I can see if I can get that part ran by me one more time next time I talk to my Grandpa. But, from what I remember, he wasn't trying to make them pay anything, they found out and offered the amount since it was so odd for 2 different types and values to be printed on the same coin-much unlike a double stamped penny.

And the point of the "FEW" and "SEVERAL" is because it was right there on the page and you mis-quoted me-not about the different perception of value.

[Edited on January 4, 2006 at 12:37 AM. Reason : m]

1/4/2006 12:37:13 AM

Yeah, I know I messed up, but it wasn't a crucial detail. Multiple millions is a lot of money. That's the point.

So was this coin penny-sized or dime-sized? Was it copper-coated or not?

Though illegal, people can do their own stamping as evidenced several years ago in South Carolina:

Quote :

"Web posted Sunday, April 15, 2001 Rebel flag shows up on S. Carolina quarters The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Somebody is adding his two bits to the Confederate flag debate by stamping the banner onto the back of some recently minted South Carolina quarters. So far, four of the altered quarters have turned up in people's change and the Secret Service is investigating the highly detailed defacing. The Confederate flag, with its stars arrayed in an X, was stamped over the palmetto tree, the Carolina wren and the state flower, the yellow jessamine. Few people "have the time or talents to do this," said Secret Service agent Pete Ostergren. "It was a very fine job. There were no scratches or etches." Ostergren said it was a small problem, but "it's nothing you want to see circulated with an emblem that someone might find offensive." Those who deface money can be punished with five years in jail or fined. A former lieutenant commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans says there are better ways to support flying the flag. "Fly them at home, put bumper stickers on cars," R.G. Wilson of Easley said Friday. "There are a variety of ways, but you don't have to deface a coin."

1/4/2006 12:09:25 PM

i would like to have one of those

1/4/2006 1:36:28 PM