So there’s this commercial on TV, on a “treasure chest” of rare coins, including at least a dozen wheat pennies. (Which reminds me, I found a 1946 wheat penny in my pocket yesterday. It’s been a while since I got one at random. Neat.)<\/p>\n
Anyway, “even the chest itself is a collector’s item,” made out of real wood and “genuine brass-tone hinges.”<\/p>\n
Genuine brass-tone hinges.<\/p>\n
Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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