mbarrick | Things have stories. I have this old 1909 ha'penny. It's not really worth anything. I use it to…

Things have stories. I have this old 1909 ha'penny. It's not really worth anything. I use it to tap my fountain pen on. You can see the nicks from that in Britannia and Edward. What amuses me about this one is it's bent from being used as a screwdriver and there is a lot of wear from decades of circulation after it was bent. These things were demonetised in 1971, 54 years ago, so all those decades of wear were before that. Someone a hundred years ago or more and 7,500 km away had some trivial little fix to do. I wonder what it was? There we all are wandering through time and the world, leaving tiny little marks. Maybe no one notices, maybe someone does.
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