Coins Mountain Man coins, not bacon. There's a lot of us baconators out there. I like your post Railguy, thank you.
I'm of predominately Irish ancestry (mood image says "English"...they didn't have "Irish" and English-Scotch is secondary, so also as an English buff it was close enough...plus too many others to decide from I have a number of these in different denoms/animals and metals...most if not all are also medal-struck, without dentils, etc.
I’m also of Scot Irish descent and a few years ago, while metal detecting, I harvested this 1940 Irish half pound. It being silver and since a hole had already been placed in it, my wife insisted I have a good bezel made for it and I wear it on a really nice silver chain I also found metal detecting. Some things are meant to be...
They taught us human anatomy starting with [fetal] pigs, and it is said there is virtually no taste difference between bacon (aka pig butt) and human buttocks when cooked - haven't had bacon since.....
