Bassfish
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- Jul 12, 2006
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Feeling lucky? Check those pockets.
Before you toss that pretty penny into the coin jar, take a closer look — thanks to MidAtlanticCoins owner Steve A. Bryan, that penny saved could be $500 earned.
He might be crazy, but Bryan purposefully spent a rare 1914-D Lincoln penny worth 500 big ones because, well, he knows good publicity when he sees it, Dover's WFMY reports.
Bryan says he got the idea to make somebody's day after someone spent $100 bills with no serial numbers at a casino this past summer that could've been worth thousands — had they not been printed illegally by a sticky-fingered U.S. Treasury worker.
By spending the costly cent piece, Bryan hopes not only to get a little attention for his business, but to raise the spirits of would-be collectors who were duped by the fraudulent money earlier in the year.
"All we ask," he said, "is that they bring the coin in so that we can identify the coin and declare that it has been found."
Before you toss that pretty penny into the coin jar, take a closer look — thanks to MidAtlanticCoins owner Steve A. Bryan, that penny saved could be $500 earned.
He might be crazy, but Bryan purposefully spent a rare 1914-D Lincoln penny worth 500 big ones because, well, he knows good publicity when he sees it, Dover's WFMY reports.
Bryan says he got the idea to make somebody's day after someone spent $100 bills with no serial numbers at a casino this past summer that could've been worth thousands — had they not been printed illegally by a sticky-fingered U.S. Treasury worker.
By spending the costly cent piece, Bryan hopes not only to get a little attention for his business, but to raise the spirits of would-be collectors who were duped by the fraudulent money earlier in the year.
"All we ask," he said, "is that they bring the coin in so that we can identify the coin and declare that it has been found."
