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Show AMERICAN (Copy for This Department Supolled by the American Legion News Service.) FOUND VALUABLE WAR RELIC Oregon Legion Man's Best Trophy of Big Conflict, Is Worth Large Sum. Souvenirs varying from a chip off Eiffel tower to a German beer stein i4A captured in Se- f dan, were brought hack from France mmt!!Z by tlie returning Americans. But : few of the mv " mentoes stored in jsllv a doughboy's "SVV pack are as val-lW val-lW b uable as that be- t (V' lonSinS to George lif' -l s D. Foster, fonner-ll fonner-ll f !y a corporal of ri-4SSt the Fourth Engl-aeers, Engl-aeers, Fourth Division, who found a rare Roman coin that is perhaps worth several hundred dollars. While looking for a safe and soft spot in the ruins of an old house near Bergy, France, Corporal Foster, now a peace-loving member of the American Ameri-can Legion in Cottage Grove, Ore., found an old gilt case containing a coin. He thrust it into his pack and recently turned it over to a -college professor who pronounced It worth more than its weight in gold. Its date Is 306 A. D. On one side it bears the Inscription "Magnus," the title given the Emperor Constantine. On the other oth-er Bide are the inscriptions "Voties XX," "Beatas Tranquilita" and "Percursa TreveriSjl'- Hie latter words, the professor declares, indicate indi-cate that the coin was minted in Trier, Germany, formerly a seat of the Roman Ro-man empire. |