Not too far from where I live is a business called “Coin Mart Jewelry.”
They sell valuable coins. They have a market for coins, hence “Coin Mart.”
They also sell jewelry, which is why that word is also in their name.
However, my first impression was that you needed coins to buy jewelry at their mart, just like at one time you had to have four quarters to buy a cheese sandwich, In this case, buying a $4,000 diamond necklace would require 16,000 quarters. I imagine it would be frustrating to discover that after putting in 15,999 quarters into the slot, that you were one quarter short. Look at the vending machine below and mentally replace the sandwich with a pearl necklace. Such is the way I think.
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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