And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Pennies recovered after Karamela Headgiver dropped trou during her first trip to the WH tranny-friendly bathroom? Willie Brown was notoriously cheap, when it came to the hoes he used.
My metaphor would be the life cycle. Start out bright and shiny across the board and progressively get worse as you go down the board to old age. Some are aging faster than others, but they all end up old.
I'll take all the pennies starting from the 4th row and going down. Most/all look to be real copper pennies, not the debased copper plated zinc in the first three rows.
Old money, or new, it all spends the same.
ReplyDeletePennies recovered after Karamela Headgiver dropped trou during her first trip to the WH tranny-friendly bathroom? Willie Brown was notoriously cheap, when it came to the hoes he used.
ReplyDeleteI checked. Not an Indigenous People Head one in the entire lot.
ReplyDeleteAnd that one would be worth a hellofalot more than these junkers!
DeleteShoulda stopped producing those about 60 years ago. Stopping tomorrow would be fine.
ReplyDeleteNo, what we should do is stop and then reverse the debasement of our currency, which would solve a great many problems, including this.
DeleteDebasement of currency?
ReplyDelete1793–1795 ~100% copper 208 grains 13.48
1795–1857 † ~100% copper 168 grains 10.89
1856–1864 88% copper, 12% nickel (also known as NS-12) 72 grains 4.67
1864–1942 bronze (95% copper, 5% tin and zinc) 48 grains 3.11
1943 zinc-coated steel (also known as 1943 steel cent) 42 grains 2.72
1944–1946 gilding metal (95% copper, 5% zinc) 48 grains 3.11
1947–1962 bronze (95% copper, 5% tin and zinc) 48 grains 3.11
1962–1982 gilding metal (95% copper, 5% zinc) 48 grains 3.11
1982–present copper-plated zinc (97.5% zinc, 2.5% copper) 38.6 grains 2.5
Thanks for that. I use things like this to educate my kids to hate central banks in hopes they get to dissolve them.
DeleteMy metaphor would be the life cycle. Start out bright and shiny across the board and progressively get worse as you go down the board to old age. Some are aging faster than others, but they all end up old.
ReplyDeleteYup. Thats it.
DeleteI'll take all the pennies starting from the 4th row and going down. Most/all look to be real copper pennies, not the debased copper plated zinc in the first three rows.
ReplyDeleteSorry, I cannot make heads or tails of it...
ReplyDeleteNice...
Deletethe copper value of 100 1909-1982 pennies is ~$2.36. it is illegal to melt pennies for their base metal.
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