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Police seek man who passed fake $20 coin at Williams Township ice cream shop
by CHRIS A. COUROGEN, Of The Patriot-News
Tuesday May 19, 2009, 8:07 AM
State police are looking for a man who passed a fake $20 coin at an ice cream parlor in Williams Township, Dauphin County. Police said the man, described as white, short and stocky, with black curly hair, used the coin Friday evening to purchase ice cream at Willow Tree Ice Cream. After the suspect convinced the owner of the shop the coin was a new issue that was just entering circulation, the owner gave the man change.
Police said the man left in a teal Dodge Caravan registered to Mervin M. Horst of Newmanstown, Pa. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Horst is asked to contact state police at Lykens at 717-362-8700. Wow...just wow. Part of me has no pity on the ice cream dude. Wish they would have shown a picture of it. Maybe it was a Liberty dollar
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the owner gave the man change  swcoin.ecrater.com
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After the suspect convinced the owner of the shop the coin was a new issue that was just entering circulation, the owner gave the man change. I wonder what it looked like... Anyways, this happened with the 1996 series notes. Lots of people though it was fake (as it was a totally new design) and the BEP/Treas was flooded with calls about the notes. That's why there was a media blitz for the 2004 ones. |
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I wonder what it looked like...
Looked all over and so far haven't found anythin |
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It might have looked like this........  |
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Well it it was it's normally worth more then "face" on ebay |
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I wouldn't accept it. 1 ounce? Still $~14 to me.  |
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...After the suspect convinced the owner of the shop the coin was a new issue that was just entering circulation, the owner gave the man change... Quote:
...Maybe it was a Liberty dollar That's exactly what I was thinking. In a TV documetary from the period, Bernard Von NotHaus, the guy behind Liberty Dollars, did this exact same thing to a couple of unsuspecting street vendors. YouTube link to the relevant clip. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I know it could be a collectors item, but does it have a numismatic value?
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Posted 05/19/2009 7:28 pm
