LUCKIEST DOLLAR BILL IN THE WORLD? Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 10, March 6, 2005, Article 22
LUCKIEST DOLLAR BILL IN THE WORLD?
The Press & Dakotan of South Dakota published an
article this week about a local man planning to sell
a bill with a special serial number:"Is it the luckiest dollar bill in the world?
A Yankton man who owns a 1977-issued $1 bill with all
sevens in the serial number is willing to make that argument,
and he hopes that someone is willing to buy it.Randy Johnson, president of First National Bank South
Dakota, says he isn't a superstitious person, but he can't
deny that he's been rewarded with a "lovely wife, two lovely
children, good health, good communities to live in and good
jobs" during the years he's had the bill in his possession.Now, he plans to sell the "Lucky 7" bill on eBay, an Internet
auction Web site. Johnson said he got the idea after reading
an article about all the "strange and unusual" objects being
sold there."People were even selling potatoes that looked like somebody,"
"Johnson came across the bill in 1980, while doing some
routine bill-sorting at a bank in LeMars, Iowa."When I got to the bundle (of bills), I just happened to look
down and saw all the sevens and the 1977 series," Johnson
said. "It was just a strange anomaly to me. I looked at it and
said, That's worth keeping.' I purchased it from the bank
and have had it ever since."Originally, Johnson had the other nine one-dollar bills in the
series with all sevens except for the last digit as well, but
over the years he's given them away to friends, he said."To read the full article: Full Story
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