Parallel worlds converged at the newsstand

pChas

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Can anyone help me out with this? Plot concerns a New York male who on his way home from the office always stops at a certain newsstand to buy the afternoon paper. One evening he receives a strange coin (maybe a Roosevelt nickel?). This coin is a talisman which moves him into a parallel universe, although he doesn't realize it until he gets home to his apartment, he's met by his wife -- who is not the same woman as in his other world.

I thought this was a Jack Vance story, or novella, but now I'm very doubtful that this is so. I think this story was originally published in the U.S. in the late 1950's or '60's. Can someone with a more orderly mind than mine help me out with this please? Thanks to all who read this ...
pChas, Oakland, CA
 
Sounds like The Woodrow Wilson Dime (1968) by Jack Finney.

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