Show T PIECE A Gro Grocery CI Clerk rk Carried It Fifty Fifty-FI Y Years ar noel and Now Note Its It's Worth n a Fortune Fortuna The grimly humorous goddess of ot fortunes fortunes fortunes for for- tunes good and ond Ill never nevor wrought for forthe tho the heroes of a or a Hans Hana Andersen a 8 stranger trick than that b by which sho she recently thrust fortune Into tho the pocket of ot an unsuspecting grocers grocer's dork clock of ot Los Angeles Angole He tie Is 18 Charles L. L Cross a ft clerk for tor Frank A A. A Valle Valle- Valica a grocer of ot South Main Bain street For nearly fifty years ho hohas hohas hohns has hns carried as a lucky pocket picco a half dollar of ot the silver sliver same date as ns the your of ot his birth 1853 1563 And it has his faith In Its luckiness s at toast for from being merely merely merely mere mere- ly a battered and war worn norn four-bit four piece of ot ancient vintage and doubtful beauty It has suddenly leaped to relatively rel rel- enormous value as the second known coin of ot that elate date In existence In cold colli cash its Increase Is la worth 60 GO per ner cent of its face Twenty five 1 went y five hundred d dollars was re refused refused re- re fused with scorn b by the tho ow owner of tho the only other j halt half dollar r known w to rated exist rated aa s th the most ost valuable coin now In the ex exhibit bit of ot the American Numismatic Nu Nu- a association In Chicago o. o Thorn There aro are few tew Individual coins of greater value value val val- ue by record of ot their rarity than thon tho the 1853 1863 half dollar oven tho the historic dollar dollar dollar dol dol- lar of 1804 taking a back seat when It comes to relative scarcity More than half halt a n. century ago In his native town of Niles Mich Ich tho coin was given to Cross as a lL birthday Irth a pros pren- ent because It was struck off ott In the sumo same year ear of ot his birth It went Into tho the pocket of ot young Charles Charles' first pair pall of or pants and In his trousers trousers pocket It has remained ever since The rho trousers have changed from time to time but ut the coin has never left lert his hilt PO possession even over Los Los Angeles Times Insists on changing partners six nights a n week in the tho front parlor with the lights turned low Do liDo not marry a young lady whoso whose mother holds her for fol sale salo to the tho highest high high- o oat est t bidder She wishes to marry a fortune not a husband Don Dont marry morry tho the young lady who has hos been passed over by every yap In the community |