Steve Contursi started collecting pennies as a boy and now makes multimillion-dollar coin deals.

Three years ago, Steve Contursi of Laguna Beach bought a 1794 silver dollar, believed to be the first minted in the United States. In case it's stolen or lost, he insured the coin for $10 million.

My last time here was eight years ago. It wasn't for long. We were flying back from a Hawaiian honeymoon, and our plane lost an engine somewhere over the Pacific. We diverted to San Francisco for an emergency landing around 1 a.m.