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  2. Coin collecting in the US has become a lost art - but one ...

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    A box with collectible coins in cells and a hand holding a coin. According to a May YouGov poll of nearly 3,000 American adults, over 80 percent reported they would stop to pick up coins on the ...

  3. Odds and evens (hand game) - Wikipedia

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    Odds and evens is a simple game of chance and hand game, involving two people simultaneously revealing a number of fingers and winning or losing depending on whether they are odd or even, or alternatively involving one person picking up coins or other small objects and hiding them in their closed hand, while another player guesses whether they have an odd or even number.

  4. How Rare Coins Can Fund Your Early Retirement Dreams - AOL

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    According to Adamo, “It’s safe to say that if you bought 100 different coins in the ’90s, 95-100 of them would yield profit, and most would be 100% – 1000% up in value.

  5. List of American Pickers episodes - Wikipedia

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    The guys pick up tons of items, Harley-Davidson helmet, 1975 Batman Mobile Bat Lab Volkswagen toy van, an antique M. Hohner accordion on which Frank shows off his musical talents, chalkware figurines of Uncle Sam and a soldier boy, late-1950s Jayne Mansfield water bottle, various wobble toys, and a Philco Predicta TV.

  6. Miser's Dream - Wikipedia

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    Miser's Dream [1] is a magic routine where the magician produces coins from the air (and often other places) and drops them into a receptacle they are holding, usually a metal bucket. [2] It has also been called "Aerial Treasury". It was invented in the 19th century and popularized by T. Nelson Downs circa 1895.

  7. 'Pawn Stars:' Why a rare coin worth six figures sold for much ...

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    On History Channel's hit show "Pawn Stars," a man came in to sell a 1907 Saint-Gaudens double eagle $20 gold coin. The coins are extremely rare, and some of them have sold for more than $1 million ...

  8. Pitching pennies - Wikipedia

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    Pitching pennies is a game played with coins. Players take turns to throw a coin at a wall, from some distance away, and the coin which lands closest to the wall is the winner. In Britain the game is also known as pap, penny up or penny up the wall and it is referred to as pitch-and-toss in Rudyard Kipling's poem If—.

  9. Coins as votive offering - Wikipedia

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    The 1953 romantic comedy "Roman Holiday" was released in mainland China in 1986 after being dubbed by Changchun Film Studio.Not only did the female protagonist's hairstyle and clothing become a fashion trend at the time, but the scene of tossing a coin and making a wish at the Trevi Fountain also became a classic memory of love and romance for a generation.