Victorian Coin by Crabbycabby

Photography • Objects • posted on Aug 19, 2009

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A 1887 Victorian Coin. Converted to black and white so as not to show the discolouring. You just wonder what they would have spent it on? When you consider the diversity in the shops today compared to then, what was there to spend it on? I often look at coins like this and wonder what it did purchase, who's pocket had it been in, a rich man, a poor man, what shops it had been in, and even what parts of the country it had been in?

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PSDuck

1:59AM | Wed, 19 August 2009

1887: there was quite a bit to spend your money on. Many things we do (candy, flowers, food, dine-out, a cabby) and do not (laudenum, oil of coca, arsenic "pick me up" pills)...just to name a few. If I knew the denomination, I could tell you more. (I research economics, a kind of forensic economist.)

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