Sorry if it is a bit boring, I don't want to leave out any details.
Let me give you my scenario: Yesterday, my Marketing class took a field trip to a college for some business convention. After the trip ended, we stopped the bus at a Wal-Mart parking lot and I had a choice to make: eat at Chick-Fil-A or Taco Bell. I chose Taco Bell, where I ate my lunch and went back to school.
As I was looking over my change, I noticed a strange looking coin. It said "five cent peice" but I never saw a nickel like it. It had a buffalo on one side and the portrair of a Native American on the other. When I got home, I did some research and found out that it was an Indian Head nickel. These coins were made between 1913 to 1938 and are apparantly rare as only 1 out of 25,000 nickels in circulation are Indian Heads. Excited, I researched the worth of one of these and, much to my surprise, some are worth as much as $1,200.
Let's see, one lazy-ass 16 year old with a nickel possibly worth $1,200??? Yes!!! However, there was a small note on the website I was looking at. If the date on the nickel was scratched out or faded, it was pretty much worthless. I nervously looked at where the date was supposed to be and......it was completely obliterated.....
Despair....
Anybody else have an Indian Head or something else that had potential to be valuable, only to have it mercilessly ripped from your hands??
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