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Craig Earl
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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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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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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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