Matching pair circulation catch & release today
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Had 24 stops in all today while running errands--hardware store, post office, rental properties, architect, coffee, lunch, etc.
The first stop I checked my change and found a 1948 nickel. Put it in my side pocket and kept going.
The very last stop, about 5 hours later, I got a 1954 nickel. Took them out to compare just now.
Not quite twins. But tone, shading, wear: they bear a family resemblance.
OK, so they're probably not keepers. And yet...
Sure, finding silver in change is better. But I'd wager that any 90% we find in 2014 has been reintroduced and probably pretty recently. I don't think that's true of nickels. It's neat that pieces we still find in change today circulated along side mercs & walkers, maybe steel cents.
The first stop I checked my change and found a 1948 nickel. Put it in my side pocket and kept going.
The very last stop, about 5 hours later, I got a 1954 nickel. Took them out to compare just now.
Not quite twins. But tone, shading, wear: they bear a family resemblance.
OK, so they're probably not keepers. And yet...
Sure, finding silver in change is better. But I'd wager that any 90% we find in 2014 has been reintroduced and probably pretty recently. I don't think that's true of nickels. It's neat that pieces we still find in change today circulated along side mercs & walkers, maybe steel cents.
We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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in a bunch of old Whitman's I have, and give out to people or there kids
when they seem interested.
Steve