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Standing Liberty Quarter-a Days Wage For A Miner In 1930


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As kids we would put large pennies in Hg and pretend that they were florins (a two shillings or 2 bob ). I know Hg is dangerous and have used it to make amalgam. They even made tooth filling with it which I had (I guess that explains a lot🥺). One problem I had about a year or two, was I had a few Kilos of Hg in a plastic lab container. The Plastic container was exposed to the sun light for a long time and perished with no indication it had . Luck was with me when I picked it up. The Container was in a billy, when I picked it up the plastic unit my fingers went right through the plastic and most of the Hg went into the billy but I still had a lot to recover of the bench and floor over a large area. The main thing is Carol was out at the time so I did not get told off. I hope I was not too much of topic but my pennies were silver.😇

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