DW> There's also "fool's gold", a mineral that looks
startlingly like gold,
DW> but is actually iron sulphide. Many a prospector has thought he's
DW> struck it rich, only to find his "gold" is virtually worthless.
 
Believe me, David, pyrite has been discussed often in Fido-echoes.
 
DW> It was, in fact, a solid gold coin with a face value of a hundred dollars
DW> which had been issued at the time of the games. Someone, sometime, must
DW> have mistaken it for a one-dollar coin, and had spent it as such, since
DW> when it had been circulating as a one-dollar coin. The kid sold it to a
DW> coin dealer for about $250. It was the best tip he ever got.
 
And the kid probably lost a lot of money because that coin is/was worth way
more than that.
 
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