Does anyone remember this ???

I still have this from Coin Magazine. They use to give out these and other types of gift to renewal your subscription.

 

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Way before my time.

 

Funny.. Why would they have the S in quotations?
They could of simply stated.. The S mint mark distinguishes coins

 

+1

 

way before my time and I am old (66)

 

Quote marks are tied with semicolons for first place in The Bad Writing Techniques Book.

 

I tend to "do" that too.

 

Nah, commas, have, all, the, rest, beat, by, a, mile...

 

The writer's most important tool is the period.

 

Otherwise someone may read it as Smint Mark.

 

I didn't think they invented coins that early even

 

They hadn't. We had to draw liberty on milk bottle caps.....Oh wait ...

 

Lmao

 

What about apostrophe's?

 

The correct punctuation woud be 'S' using single tick quotes. Double tick quotes are for indicating a quoted element of speech, the single quote mark is to demarcate an element in a sentence that is not a grammatical part of the sentence but is being referred to in the sentence. In this case the letter S is not a part of speech, not a noun, verb, etc. but needs to be included.

 

Yes I remember them.

 

Those were the good old days when subscription people send you good stuff rather these nothing and cost you more to subscribe.

 

This is like a Magellan GPS I had. A local road is South Park Road, abbreviated, of course S. Park Road but the Magellan voice pronounces it as Spark Road.