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To: Olog-hai

I want pounds, shillings and pence.


48 posted on 12/07/2019 9:02:43 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Every election is more or less an advance auction of stolen goods. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

Florins, half-crowns, sixpence, threepence, ha’pennies and farthings too?

The diameter of the old British penny is the same as that of the US 50¢ coin, BTW. Those are the pennies that used to go on the eyes of the dead.


51 posted on 12/07/2019 9:05:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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