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Literary Lapses
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Stephen Leacock
87
No.
1.
Ancient
Roman
coin.
Time
of
Caligula.
This
one
of
course
was
the
gem
of
the
whole
lot;
it
was
given
me
by
a
friend,
and
that
was
what
started
me
collecting.
No.
2.
Small
copper
coin.
Value
one
cent.
United
States
of
America.
Apparently
modern.
No.
3.
Small
nickel
coin.
Circular.
United
States
of
America.
Value
five
cents.
No.
4.
Small
silver
coin.
Value
ten
cents.
United
States
of
America.
No.
5.
Silver
coin.
Circular.
Value
twenty-five
cents.
United
States
of
America.
Very
beautiful.
No.
6.
Large
silver
coin.
Circular.
Inscription,
"One
Dollar."
United
States
of
America.
Very
valuable.
No.
7.
Ancient
British
copper
coin.
Probably
time
of
Caractacus.
Very
dim.
Inscription,
"Victoria
Dei
gratia
regina."
Very
valuable.
No.
8.
Silver
coin.
Evidently
French.
Inscription,
"Funf
Mark.
Kaiser
Wilhelm."
No.
9.
Circular
silver
coin.
Very
much
defaced.
Part
of
inscription,
"E
Pluribus
Unum."
Probably
a
Russian
rouble,
but
quite
as
likely
to
be
a
Japanese
yen
or
a
Shanghai
rooster.
That's
as
far
as
that
collection
got.
It
lasted
through
most
of
the
winter
and
I
was
getting
quite
proud
of
it,
but
I
took
the
coins
down
town
one
evening
to
show
to
a
friend
and
we
spent
No.
3,
No.
4,
No.
5,
No.
6,
and
No.
7
in
buying
a
little
dinner
for
two.
After
dinner
I
bought
a
yen's
worth
of
cigars
and
traded
the
relic
of
Caligula
for
as
many
hot
Scotches
as
they
cared
to
advance
on
it.
After
that
I
felt
reckless
and
put
No.
2
and
No.
8
into
a
Children's
Hospital
poor
box.
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