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Craig Earl
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Joined: 13 July 2019
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 6:54am | IP Logged | 1 post reply
Yes Peter, I remember the days of the halfpenny (maybe Black Jacks & Fruit Salads were 1/2p chews?)
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John Byrne

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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 12:04pm | IP Logged | 2 post reply
Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with “dubloon”.
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Jason Ladwig
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Joined: 29 April 2020
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply
I have an x-ray of a patient that inhaled a penny and a dime. The x-ray was done so well that you can make out Lincoln's head on the penny and the eagle on the backside of the dime. I ask residents to tell me what the coins are, rarely do they get it. The new residents aren't a change in your pocket generation.
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Mikael Bergkvist
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 1:34pm | IP Logged | 4 post reply
Does this mean that Batman has to retire his giant penny?
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:17pm | IP Logged | 5 post reply
 Craig wrote:
maybe Black Jacks & Fruit Salads were 1/2p chews?)
By jove, I think you're right!
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Peter Martin
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | 6 post reply
 JB wrote:
Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with “dubloon”.

Took me a moment to work that out. I was going to say, toonie is pretty clever, but dubloon would have been genius!
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Trevor Smith
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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | 7 post reply
"Canadians missed the boat with the twoonie. As our own
Paul Gibney pointed out, they should have gone with
“dubloon”."

Oh that's brilliant.
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John Byrne

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Posted: 14 November 2025 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | 8 post reply
Does this mean that Batman has to retire his giant penny?

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Non sequitur.

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