The Confederate Coinage Matter: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar (July 28, 1957)

“The Confederate Coinage Matter” is an episode of Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, the old-time radio show, first broadcast July 28, 1957. Listen free on Stupid Potato.

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What happens

Johnny Dollar investigates the theft of a rare Confederate half dollar insured for $20,000 from the collection of Henry Sampson, a newspaper owner in Alabama. At his estate Zora, Dollar meets Sampson's wife Delilah, his secretary Michael Copac, and the servants Mary Williams and Digger, who are soon nervous about their own pasts. The episode is part of the long-running CBS Radio series Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, originally broadcast on 1957-07-28, with Bob Bailey in the title role.

Zora, the Sampson estate outside Birmingham, Alabama, and the nearby Hartford, Connecticut office of the Providence Insurance Company

Characters: Johnny Dollar, Bert McGraw, Henry Sampson, Delilah Sampson, Michael Copac, Digger, Mary Williams

Listen for: Digger's account of how the coin disappeared, and the Sampsons' reasons for wanting it found

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.