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Old 04-20-2005, 11:55 AM
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Default Man Buys Hot Dog, Gets $75 Dime As Change

Nathan Burton needed something to quell the rumbling in his stomach, so he stopped by a neighborhood convenience store and grabbed an extra-cheesy, 99-cent hot dog on Sunday night.

It proved to be a stop that changed him, briefly filling his belly and dropping into his hand a dime with an unusual patina -- copper. Now, Burton holds a coin that could be worth 500 to 1,000 times its face value.

Burton said he noticed something odd about the 2005 dime even before he put it in his pocket. The head's side of the dime, minted in Denver, gleamed of the normal silvery metal mix while the reverse side looked like a brassy new penny...
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