My two cents

[ccga3359]

I'm sorry, I didn't describe that well. The coin is almost exactly the same size of a nickle and I have put it in a fob that has a hole the size of a nickle. It's very very slightly larger than a nickle, so I will probably never get it out.

And now that I think about it, I'm not so sure that it is a British coin... but it does have the Queen on it. Maybe I will have someone look at what's on it the next time I go into town.

Then maybe it is a Canadian nickle. On the reverse is our national fish - the beaver. If this is the case then it is worth exactly $.0000987 US approximately. It's funny I was down in Buffalo the week before last. the first time in the States for me for 20 years. Coming back to Canada there is a toll on the bridge. It's fixed at $3.25 US currency or $3.75 Cdn. I was in what currency I was paying as I was handing her the money. Both I replied 3 American $1 dollar bills and a Canadian Quarter! She would accept it unless I had 25 cents in US coins (my tax dollars at work, Yippee). I had to route around in my Coffee funds to pay in Canadian (had no US coins) for the equivilence of 4 cents Canadian .



Slang for 1 cent here in Canada is a penny, what is it in the States?

[Bugbear]

Then maybe it is a Canadian nickle. On the reverse is our national fish - the beaver. If this is the case then it is worth exactly $.0000987 US approximately. It's funny I was down in Buffalo the week before last. the first time in the States for me for 20 years. Coming back to Canada there is a toll on the bridge. It's fixed at $3.25 US currency or $3.75 Cdn. I was in what currency I was paying as I was handing her the money. Both I replied 3 American $1 dollar bills and a Canadian Quarter! She would accept it unless I had 25 cents in US coins (my tax dollars at work, Yippee). I had to route around in my Coffee funds to pay in Canadian (had no US coins) for the equivilence of 4 cents Canadian .



Slang for 1 cent here in Canada is a penny, what is it in the States?

Ya, it's a Canadian nickle. It was the date on the coin and who gave it to me that was important to me.

I have a bunch of other coins from other countries too. I know my mother brought back some coins from Ireland, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few British coins in that pile. That would have been in the late nineties.

I'm way, way out of the coin investing and collecting now, so there's nothing too interesting in my stack.

[piperdbh]

Does the expression "a penny for your thoughts" imply that someone's thoughts are worth only $0.01? I know several folks whom I would gladly pay the penny if they would keep their thoughts to themselves. My 9th graders, for instance...