Re: [various] CONLANG Digest - 30 Aug 2000
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 2, 2000, 2:06 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> American coins did that too. The metals in (IIRC) the pennies or the
> nickels came to be worth more than the actual denomination of the coin, so
> they ended up making them of different amounts of stuff.
Right, but that didn't mean that the penny became worth more than 1
cent. And I think they changed it before the cost reached 1 cent. The
penny remained 1 cent, and the nickel remained 5 cents.
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