Danish Swindler Makes Fortune by Clever Coup.
By spreading the report that the Danish copper cent coins of the 1910 issue contained gold, a clever swindler has amassed a small fortune in Denmark. Before spreading the rumor the swindler acquired a large collection of the 1910 issue of coppers. Then it became noised about that through a mistake in the mint gold had been mixed with the copper.
The price of the cent pieces began to go up, some selling for as much as a dollar each. With the market at the highest, the collector distributed his cents ju[{69}]diciously among the clamorous bidders and escaped before it became generally known that the coins were worth only their face value.