US Trade Dollar from San Francisco c. 1870's AD
Seems to have been struck in .900 gold
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There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple.
English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France.
Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes,
we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square
and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?
If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?
Or, one goose, 2 geese? So one moose, 2 meese?
One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend.
If you're not disgruntled, are you gruntled?
If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught?
If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Counterfeit Coin Detection Primer Coin Grading and Authentication Services Coin Toning: Real, Artificial, In Between? Getting the Most from Coin Price Guides More to come... Some of the coin consumer material here appeared earlier in a different format in articles of mine in Groin World and Groins magazine. |
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