The story
“The plugged nickel first attracted the attention of Mr. Christopher one Sunday morning while he was getting ready to go to church. He found it in his everyday clothes, and flung it out the window. After that, for a fortnight, that bad coin kept popping up at him in all sorts of unexpected places. When he had thrown it in the river and supposed it lost forever, it turned up again, like Tom Thumb, inside a fish he caught and cleaned. Then Mr. Christopher sat down and counted up all the ways, in which, to his own knowledge, that nickel had done good. It had bought his children ice cream—for when he had first flung it out the window it was the children who had found it and raced off to the ice cream parlor. It had fallen to an old darkey, who had successfully passed it off again to Mr. Christopher, who bought himself a glass of beer with it. The bartender had got a car ride on it, and a fish had dined on it. Doubtless, the nickel was the luck which brought to Mr. Christopher the fish. So he cannot make up his mind whether he lost money or made it.”
Summary from Reel Life · 31 July 1915
