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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1478)1/23/2001 8:22:00 PM
From: lurqer  Read Replies (1) of 104154
 
Your conversation with whiterock (geezerette, I love that term) is bringing back some old memories. Intermediate between your ages, I have no memories of the '30s but plenty of the '40s. So while I didn't see the depreciation, most of the adults I saw as a child were scared (many for a lifetime) by that debacle.

As a preschooler at the end of the war who was learning to count, I had two piles - one of U.S. coins, the other was tokens used for wartime ration purchases. While the coins were quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, the tokens in corresponding values also included mils (1/10th of a cent). I remember sitting in my living room with my two piles in '46 and being very sad that there weren't going to be any more mils.

Thanks for the reminder.

lurqer
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