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I feel sorry for him. He entered my life when I got him in change. I was surprised that I even got him in change from a gas station in Indiana. I really did not even notice him until I opened my wallet (yes I put change in my wallet) and saw the coin. I thought that this would be a good opportunity to spread the joy of coin collecting to a fellow co-worker. I was going to sell it for the face value of one dollar.  Well I still have him, nobody wanted him;

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Employee 1; I don’t like the feel of the coin, I want the paper dollar unless it is real gold, Is it real gold? – me, No.  Him – Well then it is just junk.

Employee 2; Are you trying to scam me, this is a piece of junk, it is not a real coin.

Employee 3: I don’t care about this stuff, It doesn’t have a date on it, so it cannot be real. Me- the date is on the edge. Him; that is stupid, that shows you that it is a fake. Murder Rooms: The Photographer’s Chair dvd

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Employee 5: Yea, I have seen these before, I don’t like them.

Employee 6: I don’t collect coins, it will just get lost, or I will spend it for a quarter.

Employee 7: (He collects coins), I have a couple but I don’t think much of them, I don’t need it.

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Employee 8: She asks-Is this like the Susan B. Anthony dollar, Me – No it is like the Sacagawea dollar, her- What is that? Me (rolls eyes and leaves)

So President James Monroe, is still in my possession. Looking good but sadly un-wanted. Not even worth the value stamped on it. People are slow to change, and cannot seem to accept a new form of currency. The old greenback is still king, and as long as we associate wealth with that paper dollar it will never change. The interesting thing about this is back in the 1800’s the opposite was true. Hard currency was preferred to paper currency. It was simply because when you got a coin it was made of metal equal to it’s face value. People worried about paper currency because it had no real value. Oh, how ideas of what is valuable has changed. Remember when the government started to panic when the value of a penny’s metal actually started to equal the value of a penny. (then exceed it). I am sure many normal working Americans, could not see what this meant about their money.  As long as they can go to Wal-Mart and buy your food, they are in a blissful world.

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