Show the honeck Rabe olT A conductor 0 a sixth avenue car daring a lull in the ringing ot tares stood passing coins from one hand to the other turning up the date of each coin as he did so there are more ways of making money than by knocking down fares he remarked noting the inquiring look on a passengers ace any greenhorn can pocket a dozen nickels in collecting fares in a car built forty eight passengers but a man has got to know something to spot a coin that has a premium value its surprising how many more or less rare coing pass current without tailing into the hands of some one who knows their value this was suggested to me one day and I 1 took to studying the catalogue of dealers in rare coins and memorizing tha dates of those that are worth more the prices stamped on them alcoe then I 1 have picked out of the money I 1 have taken in fares several hundred coins with a premium value ranging from a few cents to 5 and have redeemed them with my own money and sold them to dealers in coins new york times |