MOST UNPOPULAR COIN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2662, 2 June 1908, Page 7

MOST UNPOPULAR COIN.

Nobody will deny, I suppose, that the most popular coin—if any coin can be said, strictly speaking, to be unpopular—is the threepenny-bit. Directly a threepenny-bit comes into my possession—and I can assure you that it never does if I am sufficiently on the alert to avoid it—l make up my mind to get rid of it. I know perfectly well that the man to. whom I tender it in exchange for servicer rendeigdy or goods Jfeceived wilLdisiik»TOe# * J%> is %$ a<nice idea, iMrat is nicest the cwitoafc P f a the'little beast, , I am^aimteff;- By the fear that.. I I should nofri?rie*er -very much over the loss' of three coppers, or even, six, but the loss of a threepenny-bit means a distinct score for the man who passed it on to me. In the end, the thing develaps into a sinister game. . Manv friendships, I feel convinced, have been severed by the threepennybit. ;Jt would have been in long- ago "had it 'not ; -beetf preserved at the special request of mean churchgoers. Parsons should combine to get rid of it. The snobs who are afraid of the 6ound of copper in the bag would then give sixpence, a.n£. jthere are enough. snobs' to ; make. it=v worth the parsons' while to- put ; this job through.—Keble Howard, in the "Sketch."