The hall was teeming with numismatists. That is to say, coin collectors buzzing around a vast acreage of display cases filled with exciting things like Estonian kroons and Filipino Treasury Certificates.

There was also a huge display case filled with millions of bucks in old currency. Jay again.

BEETON: These are $100,000 notes. These were never made for general circulation, but they were made for bank transfers back in the day when you would hire a runner on a bicycle and he'd uh.

Ah, now the reason he stopped talking was because, all of a sudden, this huge guy walks up with a security guard, removes a million dollars from the display case and starts posing for photos with it. Hello.

PETERS: Who is this guy?

BEETON: That's Hillbilly Jim the wrestler.

PETERS: Hillbilly Jim the wrestler?

BEETON: He was a wrestler in the WWF for years and what have you.

Oh, that Hillbilly Jim, always kidding around. Turns out he's also a serious coin collector. He has the pony-tail and everything.

I was going to ask him a lot more, but the next thing I knew he was wrestling with some guy from the U.S. Treasury.

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