Woman Puts 100 Year Old Gold Coin In Parking Meter (Worth $1,000)

[matcom]

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African woman mistakenly plunked a 100-year-old gold coin worth more than $1,000 into a parking meter while shopping without her glasses, a newspaper reported on Wednesday.

"I can't believe I could have done something like that," said the woman, who asked not to be identified.

The woman said she also believed she had spent an 1890 sovereign, worth a small fortune, as small change, the Cape Argus newspaper said.

The woman inherited the gold coins from her mother, but they became mixed up with loose coins she kept in a container and were transferred to her purse by mistake.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=573&e=2&u=/nm/20040722/od_nm/odd_safrica_coin_dc

[GOPisEvil]

1. D'oh!!!!!!

[demnan]

2. Cashiers live for moments like this

I remember as a cashier when I was working in a convenience store people came in with silver certificate dollar bills which are worth a lot of money now. I always checked the change drawer for little goodies like that.

[underpants]

3. Paid for a year of parking in advance?

:bounce:

[Wilber_Stool]

4. Did I what?

Find a gold coin when I emptyed the meter? No, no , no. Not me. Didn't find a thing. Nope, not a thing.