Friday Timewaster
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2000 pound coin. I've got a jar in front of me with [guesstimate] £10 in coppers, I'm sure I'll find an early 70's in there too.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
I wonder, how do you carry that around? :confused:
Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum
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Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
1980 cent and 1980 quarter are the oldest in my pocket. Oldest I own is an 1856 cent. Yes, that's "18".
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I don't carry coins. I carry bullets.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997Instead of dates, then you could post the bullet's calibre instead. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
2000 pound coin
That a very heavy coin you've got there, I'm surprised you can get it in your pocket! ;P
Ali
I couldn't come up with a better way to write it as I'm now pizzad.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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How long is bullet good for? Does it expire at some age?
A bullet, like a coin, is good until it is spent. :-D
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I carry bullets.
Are you sure they are not Musket Balls? ;)
Ali
Better that than musty...
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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1980 cent and 1980 quarter are the oldest in my pocket. Oldest I own is an 1856 cent. Yes, that's "18".
1856, that's almost prehistoric...
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:
I carry bullets.
Are you sure they are not Musket Balls? ;)
Ali
I've never been close enough to a musket to actually see it's balls. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Instead of dates, then you could post the bullet's calibre instead. :)
Chris Meech I am Canadian. [heard in a local bar] In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. [Yogi Berra] posting about Crystal Reports here is like discussing gay marriage on a catholic church’s website.[Nishant Sivakumar]
Everyone already has that info. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
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Wow! Just think if you could somehow track the history of that coin since it came from the mint.
Here in the states it's quite surprising what you can find in a handful of change, I still occasionally find pennies from 20's on. They still look very much the same as more contemporary pennies with Lincoln on them. My father is an avid numismatist who exhorts us to always check our change. (but tells us to forego the Canuckian coins... :laugh: )
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
1986 US 1 cent. 1986 Can 1 cent.
Watched code never compiles.
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I don't carry coins. I carry bullets.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
£1 coins 1983
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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1856, that's almost prehistoric...
Among US coinage it certainly is. It's from the era of large cents, so it's somewhere between the size of a quarter and a half-dollar. I like to ponder the history that coin has seen, who may have handled it, etc.
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Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
1956 and 1967 cent, here in Montreal and the 1956 is U.S!! :wtf:
Vince Remember the dead, fight for the living
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You'd like our modern British coinage - it's copper-jacketed!
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Ours will be plastic soon. On the bright side, we can finally make real use of all those Monopoly games collecting dust in our attics. :)
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 -
Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
Wow, I'm glad you asked. I happen to have a 1944 silver nickel, minted in Philadelphia. The coins are usually an alloy of copper and nickel, but during WW II, nickel was so important to the war effort that for three years the coins were made of an alloy of copper, silver and manganese. It's in fine condition, too. I've been collecting coins for decades, and these things are rare: most were pulled from circulation after the war.
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1986 US 1 cent. 1986 Can 1 cent.
Watched code never compiles.
Nice try, but I beat you by 30 years for the US cent. :-\
Vince Remember the dead, fight for the living
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Take all your coins out your wallet/purse. If they have dates, let us know the oldest one you got. Sorry, special or trick coins do not count. Mine is from 1991, and it is going into vending machine now :)
