Penny 2 years print

What I find interesting is the process that Kaisa described is almost precisely what was being done to gold coins back in the 1860's to remove gold from the center of the coins and replace it with a disk of platinum. Cut the coin in half remove the gold from the center, put in the platinum, solder it back together and then apply a new reeded edge to the coin.

 

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Sexist stereotyping is really uncalled for.

 

Actually, I took that more as 1) more typical of an older gent (obviously from his posts, he's a he) and being courteous to me in his own fashion, and 2) interspersed with some of the same patter he has always shown. It's not a problem with me as I am starting to like the old geezer a bit. As I get older, I am finding that men and women do have differences and that statement, to me, essentially says he doesn't want to continue arguing but does it in a way that lets him save face with himself and not have to adjust his opinion any when confronted with facts about the use of a word. That's my thinking, anyhow. The not arguing with a lady and letting the lady have the last word is him just bowing out of the conversation. I think a lot of guys really don't know how to have a real conversation with a woman - not because it's sexist to say so - but because men and women do think differently. That's the reason men have men as buddies, but not women (usually) and women tend to gravitate to women when they want to talk it out. I'm just a strange duck who doesn't mind getting into the fray on the net when I spot a good argument to enter.

I'm more concerned that he thinks there are regional differences in this that still allows him to think he's correct in his use of the word "apart" and that I just don't understand because I happen to be located in Southern California (obviously some really isolated and wacked-out place only fit for fruits, tanning, and beach freaks) and not in the part of Kentucky (western?????) he's in. GUESS he can't conceive that I've lived in other places... like Florida, North Carolina (both coastal outlying areas and Appalachian hillbilly towns), Hawaii, Missouri, Oregon, Northern California (not San Francisco...think more rural), Newfoundland, Canada, and traveled throughout the US and Canada, as well as to Eastern Europe (Russia, Poland, Ukraine), and interacted with numerous people from those places, as well as other places I haven't been to, but with people who were from other places as well.

It also doesn't even consider the fact that my parents were raised in Buffalo, NY, Detroit, MI, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and I was really attached to my grandmother (very much interacted with her as a child) who was raised in Northern Germany pre WWI.

I hope that he really doesn't think that each of our respective locations fully defines us as all we can be or do. I hope it's just another throwaway line of his that seems to work for him in life. I can deal with that, even if it is at times very frustrating.

 

Thanks, Condor. I wasn't even considering manipulation of coins to extract the PM from them surreptitiously.

Makes a lot of sense that that would be done by some.