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About 40 to 50 people, chanting "No blood on our hands--No Kruggerands," have participated in an ongoing series of demonstrations outside of the Deak-Perera currency exchange in Boston, demanding that the store stop selling the South African gold coin...
...halfpenny (pronounced hay-penny) was first minted in 1279. It went on to become a symbol of penuriousness. In Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Costard insults an acquaintance for his "halfpenny purse of wit." Now, because of inflation, the tiny (approximately ⅝in.) coin costs more to make than its value of 6?. Last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the halfpenny will not be recognized as legal tender after this year...
Extinction also awaits the pound note (current worth: $1.25). First issued in 1797, it is being replaced by a thick metal-alloy coin. Like the Susan B. Anthony dollar in the U.S., the heavy coin has been unpopular. But since the useful life of a paper pound is ten months, vs. 40 years for the coin, the Royal Mint expects to save $3.75 million a year. The British have already dubbed the new coin the Maggie, after Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, because it is hard, rough around the edges and, says one Member of Parliament, "pretends to be a sovereign...
...start of this season, however, Cozza wasn't worrying about winning last-minute football games. In the wake of the debacle of '83', and '84's first two contests-losses to Brown and Connecticut-the veteran coach would have been happy just to see his troops win the coin loss...
...Cantabridgians won the coin toss, electing to receive the kickoff from Quaker placekicker Dave Shulman. Shulman promptly booted the pigskin deep into the Harvard endzone, and quarterback Don Allard & Co. took over on their...