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Colo. Couple Finds New Dollar Coin Without President's Image

In an incident of what can be yet another U.S. Mint goof, a Colorado couple has found a dollar coin without the face of George Washington on it. Although, the coin does have "In God We Trust" inscribed on its edge, it is missing out on the images both on its front and backside.

"We're just so excited," Mary Smith told The Associated Press. "I'm just dumbfounded that we actually found something significant."

New Presidential Dollar Coins Selling For $50 Apiece

An apparent quality control mistake has raised the value of the first presidential $1 coin to around $50 apiece. An unknown number of the gold colored coins with an image of the first U.S. President George Washington on it were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are now being auctioned at eBay for around $40 to $60.

The news comes just less than a month after the U.S. Mint issued nearly 300 million of the coins. The coins were supposed to feature the image of the President on one side and the Statute of Liberty on the other. "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," the issue year and the mintmark on the edge.

Philadelphia Boutique Receives Marijuana Worth $90,000

Workers at downtown boutique Fusion jeans received a very special and unexpected delivery of 20 pounds of marijuana, prompting them to call the police. The two packages of marijuana received Saturday are worth $90,000.

AP quotes Capt. Chris Werner as saying, "Officers received a call that the manager of the store had received a package from FedEx and when he opened it there was a five-gallon bucket inside."

Philadelphia Councilman Suggests Building Rubber Sidewalks

A member of the Philadelphia City Council says he will be holding hearings on a number of environmentally friendly city projects, one of them being making sidewalks out of rubber.

City Councilman at large Jim Kenney said the rubber sidewalks, which are made from recycled tires, do not crack and will last longer than sidewalks made out of concrete.

Pennsylvania Man Memorizes Pi Up To 12,887 Digits

A Pennsylvania man has set a record by memorizing pi up to 12,887 digits. The 40-year-old man Mark Umile is a filing clerk from Upper Darby.

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, Umile figured the problem by hand, writing down the results 1,000 digits at a time -- and then memorized the number. The mathematical constant đ is an irrational real number, approximately equal to 3.141592653..., which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, and has many uses in mathematics, physics, and engineering.