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| Junior Member  | BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA -- A copper penny minted in 1792 and kept in a tobacco tin for decades was auctioned Monday for $437,000. The winning bidder was not identified. The penny's owners were descendants of Oliver Wolcott, the governor of Connecticut in the 1790s and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, according to auctioneer Ira Goldberg. The chocolate-colored penny, the ninth known example of its type, bears the date 1792, an inscription "Parent of Science & Industry: Liberty," and the likeness of a woman's head representing Miss Liberty, Goldberg said. __________________ You can't wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you - Look, if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!  |
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Location: 1069.7 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 12  | Why can’t I have cool relatives? Just once I’d like to stick my head through some long lost aunt’s attic and find a Ty Cobb or a Hornace Wagner baseball card, or the body of Jimmy Hoffa. My relatives suck!  | ||||||||
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Location: 3498.51 miles from Tiverton, Ontario (CANADA) Rep Power: 16 | Quote:
You're more than welcome to come poke around in my barns... there is probably some crab my ole man shoved in there back in the day that is worth a fortune.  Of course its buried under a bunch of crap worth nothing.  | |||||||||
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| 02-23-2005, 08:22 AM | #4 (permalink) |
| Junior Member | Best I've found is a small stack (about 12) of Confederate bills....My place was a hold over from the Civil War....Union troops stationed there as a "transition" space......Worth: apox. $400  __________________ You can't wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you - Look, if I went 'round saying I was an Emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away! |
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