Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/12/21

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Subject: [Leica] 1942 Cent
From: clzeni at mindspring.com (Craig Zeni)
Date: Sun Dec 21 13:53:33 2008
References: <200812211804.mBLI3qda041015@server1.waverley.reid.org>
 
On Dec 21, 2008, at 1:04 PM, lug-request@leica-users.org wrote:
> Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 23:08:57 -0500
> From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 1942 Cent
> To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Message-ID: <20081221041413.CD02D75405@barracuda.rutabaga.org>
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> At 09:14 PM 12/20/2008, you wrote:
>> I actually have one  1943 copper (bronze from reclaimed shell casings
>> as were the 1944-46 ones.
>
>
> Argh!  It is spelled "penny" but the name is
> properly a "cent".  One of the first acts of the
> US Congress was to forbid the calling of a cent a penny.

And another stunningly effective piece of legislation that was, too.