Here's my two cents

[whitetail]

A denomination of U.S. coinage that few know once existed.

Comments

[stinkygoat]

We still have tuppences in the UK, although they are increasingly less than relevant.

And I remember thruppences from when I was a nipper. Those were cool, odd, polygonal coins that were good for a bag of sweeties }:-).

[whitetail]

Yep, had a portcullis on the reverse, if I remember correctly. I still have one or two of those, too. ^^

[mejeep]

Like the song from Disney's Mary Poppins: Feed the birds, tuppence a bag ...

[mondhasen]

A friend found a three-cent piece in an abandoned house across from us, just weeks before the town ordered the place razed. It was in the wall: there was a hole punched there and it just happened to catch his eye.

[whitetail]

Nice find! I'll have my own story to tell about a 3-cent piece soon.

[keefur]

It makes you wonder what happened to all that old currency. I do metal detecting and have found indian cents, V nickels, seated liberty quarters and even a 3 cent piece. I have never found a 2 cent piece though.

[whitetail]

Interesting! Where do you find them? Around old houses, I suppose?

[keefur]

The indian cents you can find almost anywhere there are old houses. The v nickels I found around an old hotel, and the Seated Liberty Quarters and silver 3 cent piece I found at an old Confederate river crossing used by Nathan Bedford Forrest. I found all kinds of interesting stuff there. I found buttons, hundreds of cast bullets, and some kitchen utensils.

[whitetail]

I really should have gotten into metal detecting. I'm a serious detritophile, so finding stuff like this makes me go nuts. I asked my parents to get me a metal detector when I was a kid, but they said it was too expensive. I couldn't convince them that it could ultimately pay for itself many times over!

[dexter_fox]

Something to think about at the end there. Assuming the normal 20 years per generation.
The internet is about 2o years old. 1 generation back.
Assuming this is 2020,
WW2 was 4 generations back.
Civil War: 8 generations
American Revolution: 12 generations
Columbus: 26 generations
William the Conqueror: 48 generations
Paper currency: about 68 generations (China)
Jesus: 100 generations
Oldest coins: 130 generations
Pyramids: about 230 generations
Earliest known organized barter: about 550 generations

[whitetail]

It's only been 3 80-year life-spans laid end-to-end since the USA was founded. "Young country," indeed!

[nipper]

I thought "In God we Trust" was only added to US corrency in the 1950s as a response to 'Godless Commies'? Is that just notes, or completely wrong?

[whitetail]

Contemporary myth.

[equusmaximus]

I was wondering the same thing - but there's the evidence to the contrary right there... :/