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As I foretold long ago, President Martin Van Buren has again appeared in my pocket.*
Long-time readers will recall that, in 2003, I opened up a roll of dollar coins only to find among them the face of our eighth President. The U.S. Mint had issued no such coin-- but I predicted that someday things might be different, speculating that the MVB-buck had fallen into my hands through a rift in spacetime.
Last week I found another.
The Mint has at last honored President Van Buren. It was nice to see him again. The second coin, however, does not say A MASTER POLITICIAN, DAPPER PARTY BOSS, DEBATER AND LEADER; FIRST NATIVE BORN U.S. CITIZEN TO BECOME PRESIDENT on the back-- so it is possible that the first coin may have slipped over from an adjacent parallel timeline.**
Of course, a more mundane explanation is possible, but far less interesting.
*( Read more... )
**Obligatory SF references: Correspondents have already cited Michael Kurland's The Whenabouts of Burr and Jack Finney's "The Woodrow Wilson Dime" as examples of similar occurrences.
Long-time readers will recall that, in 2003, I opened up a roll of dollar coins only to find among them the face of our eighth President. The U.S. Mint had issued no such coin-- but I predicted that someday things might be different, speculating that the MVB-buck had fallen into my hands through a rift in spacetime.
Last week I found another.
The Mint has at last honored President Van Buren. It was nice to see him again. The second coin, however, does not say A MASTER POLITICIAN, DAPPER PARTY BOSS, DEBATER AND LEADER; FIRST NATIVE BORN U.S. CITIZEN TO BECOME PRESIDENT on the back-- so it is possible that the first coin may have slipped over from an adjacent parallel timeline.**
Of course, a more mundane explanation is possible, but far less interesting.
*( Read more... )
**Obligatory SF references: Correspondents have already cited Michael Kurland's The Whenabouts of Burr and Jack Finney's "The Woodrow Wilson Dime" as examples of similar occurrences.
