The Star Spangled Banner isn't even a good song, fite me
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We also have the utterly useless pennies, kept alive by the Zinc industry.
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"No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave"
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No, the Canadian dime is also our smallest. Although we did have the sense to get rid of our penny.
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We're never getting rid of the dime, though. It has a special ship on it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluenose
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that's definitely a historic artifact of coins value being their composition
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like, despite what every Hollywood prop designer and video game artist thinks gold coins would be tiinnyyy right?
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Nah, actually with silver:gold 20:1, a gold coin worth a pound of silver is a pretty decent size. Silver pennies were tiny though.
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This tidbit about US coins is confusing as hell. You end up just giving away all coins out of frustrating.
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nah. The Aus $1 coin is about twice as big as the $2 coin. Both are gold coloured
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Canada adopted the nickel and dime for its own currency, so they have the same problem in this regard.
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