There has been a lot of old reruns on TV lately. On one Perry Mason episode they had that detective, Paul Drake, holding on to a really rare coin and he had it in his pocket and almost spent it in a restaurant. In many other shows they show or talk about coins and almost always show people handling them, in a bag, in their pockets and all are supposed to be valuable coins. I like the old westerns where they show a cowboy throwing a coin on the bar. I always wondered if they used real coins of the day for those episodes.
That's not amusing except they quote the purchase price at $37.50
It's come a long way since then.
But has it? Change $37.50 to 37 Peace dollars (which still circulated at face value in 1964) and it doesn't seem to have changed in price all that much.
And he that hath lyberte ought to kepe hit wel / For nothyng is better than lyberte / For lyberte shold not be wel sold for alle the gold and syluer of all the world. -Caxton's edition of Aesop's Fables, 1484
Amusing TV show about a penny
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Posted - 05/27/2009 : 17:40:57
