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$178.50 went a long way back then....
[San Francisco Chronicle, August 19, 1915]
Carries 3570 Buffalo Nickels For Expenses at Exposition
A. S. Trosper of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Starts for San Francisco in An Auto With His Wife
Spokane Washington, August 18 ––
Carrying 3570 buffalo nickels for expenses on his trip to the Panama-Pacific Exposition, A. S. Trosper, a business man of Couer d’Alene, Idaho, arrived here today in his automobile, accompanied by his wife. They are en route to San Francisco.
Trosper said: “We have been putting aside all our buffalo nickels for the last two years, and I expect to pay for everything in this kind of money en route and at San Francisco. We expect to stop whenever night overtakes us, as we are provided with [a] camping outfit.