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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I Like Trees, post: 285708, member: 10463&quot;]<b>Stranded Peruvians Found (not eating eachother yet)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I found a Peruvian copper coin. same circumferences/thickness as a Lincoln, unmilled</p><p><br /></p><p>(......are there any milled copper coins in the world? [scrunches up face and ponders]</p><p>Can someone answer this for real?)</p><p><br /></p><p>I found the Peruvian thingy looking through a pint mason jar of pure US cents (or things believed to be US cents.) The jar was from my parents house. They were in Peru in 1983. (the year I was born, time to start feeling bad about yourselves, but hey, I own vynils, and yes, we do know what they are, we just pretend not to to be ironic, &#039;cause nothing is more post-modern and millennial-esq as irony. My, what a long parenthitical. I really should cut down....)</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t find the Peruvian coin right now. If the date were after 1983, It would mean they couldn&#039;t have brought it back with them as a souviner. (Souviner isn&#039;t in spell check? WHAT?! That word was borrowed from French in like 1750!) At this point I have no way of knowing if the coin in question was found in change in the states, or brought from Peru.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find lots of foreign coins around their house, but this one was in a jar so...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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