The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 1, January 5, 2003, Article 16

FIRST SLABBED COIN?

  Tom Fort, editor of our print journal, The Asylum, writes:
  "My family and I recently returned from a much-needed
  vacation in lovely Key West, Florida.  While there we visited
  the famous house where Ernest Hemingway lived through
  much of the 1930s. During the tour we were shown the
  swimming pool that his wife had built for him while he was
  away covering the Spanish Civil War.  The pool cost $20,000,
  a colossal sum at the time, especially when you consider that
  the Hemingways paid only $8,000 for the property.  When
  Hemingway came home he saw the pool and loved it, that is
  until he saw the price tag.  According to our guide he shouted
  at his wife for wasting all his money and told her that she might
  as well take his last cent.  He reached into his pocket, pulled
  out a penny and stuck it into the still drying concrete before he
  stormed off.  His wife was very amused by this outburst and
  put a clear plastic cover over the coin where you can still see
  it today. By the way, Mrs. Hemingway was a rich heiress --
  she paid for the pool out of her own money."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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