Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1887 — A Picker-Up of Foreign Coin. [ARTICLE]

A Picker-Up of Foreign Coin.

A quiet, sedate voung woman who wearß glasses, always carries a couple of books, and looks as if she were an admirer of browning, is one of the queer characters who hauunt the uptown hotels. She is a shrewd young Jewess, in spite of her Bostonian apEearanee, and makes a good living by uying the foreign coin which is picked up at the hotels from travelers who exchange glitter.ng foreign gold for the cart-wheel American dollars. The hotels get the coin at a discount, she buys it at a slight advance and disposes of it in Wall street. Her friends say there isn’t a coin struck but she can tell at a glance. She picks up valuable pieces once in a while that gp to numismatists at a handsome premium.— New York Times.