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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 3962713, member: 72790&quot;]In addition to that, Britain had a period a couple centuries plus back when &quot;evasion tokens&quot; were commonly circulated as the mint was not turning out enough of the small change. Much of this stuff wound up here in America and circulated well beyond colonial independence. When Interstate I-95 was being constructed in Philadelphia back in the 1970&#039;s contractors excavated wooden BARRELS of light weight, unofficial half pennies.&nbsp; Did users of such coinage know or care about that? I don&#039;t think so. Before Italy adopted the Euro a few years back there was a constant shortage of small change, &quot;spicculi&quot; I think they called it, where almost anything was acceptable as small change (even pieces of chewing gum and telephone tokens). Necessity makes just about anything permissible. Heck, as a kid I recall getting bus tokens and Canadian pennies in my change and no one seemed to make much of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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