Two generations of clads. Wanna feel old?
cladking
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Today marks the end of an era. For years people could talk about clads being in circulation
for more than a generation. Today that comes to an end and we can now say they've been
in circulation for generations!!! Biologists normally consider a generation to be twenty years
in lenght since this is when people generall begin procreating.
For the many of us who remember their introduction it also means that those who were born
after the introduction of clads are now becoming grandparents.
for more than a generation. Today that comes to an end and we can now say they've been
in circulation for generations!!! Biologists normally consider a generation to be twenty years
in lenght since this is when people generall begin procreating.
For the many of us who remember their introduction it also means that those who were born
after the introduction of clads are now becoming grandparents.
Tempus fugit.
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Not me brother! I was born in '67 (the Summer of Love)
and the wife and I are just now contemplating starting a family.
metal coins that circulate might be obsolete by the time I'm a grandparent!
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
<< <i>Why today specificly? If I remember correctly the clad coinage didn't begin until August of 65. >>
Good point Conder. However, I'll let him slide as it's close enough being as we have two generations "date-wise".
<< <i>Why today specificly? If I remember correctly the clad coinage didn't begin until August of 65. >>
Well sure, and they weren't released to circulation until early November, but I've been wait-
ing long enough to use the plural and most people won't care too much about the distinction.
My sister was born a few days before the release and she's not a grandparent either. But by
the same token a friend of mine was a grandparent at 36.
...so in only another dozen years some of the people born after the introduction of clads will
be becoming great-grandparents.
Forty years since regular silver circulation. Wow! I am old.
Interesting to ponder. Most of the folks alive today weren't alive when silver coins circulated. Clads are getting longer of tooth.
and it sets us apart from practitioners and consultants. Gregor
And if you wanted to get academic, you could probably argue based on the number still found in bank searches that unlike their 90% silver cousins, they haven't ever entirely left circulation.
Maybe Gresham was wrong?
--Severian the Lame