Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/23/these-50-pence-coins-are-extre.html
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“Triskelion” is a very metal word in and of itself, though the Manx themselves might think less of your reference to the “Isle of Mann.”
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Ish. In the Isle of Man context, sure. But the triskelion sigil itself is about 6000 years old. The leggy version dates back to at least 6th century BCE Greek culture.
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Manx sounds like a brand of…never mind, I like living.
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Twinned with Summerisle
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I thought for a second that the Queen is now a symbol for metal for some weird reason …
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Should be possible to overlay a mutton-chopped Lemmy over her head.
Crowley does not work.
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All coins are metal, surely?
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Reminds me of the Benny Hill bit where some laundry detergent was on sale, so you were supposed to tell your friends “Two pee off!”
(Hey, I thought it was funny.)
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You gotta give ERII credit for letting them age her like that - another vainer monarch would still be requiring the mint to use the 1953 profile.
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I like this idea of using Lemmys as currency, and wish to subscribe to your newsletter
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My kitten, Trelane, is a Manx. He has no tail.
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Another more orange monarch, perhaps?
But the portrait aging is tradition now, Queen Victoria’s coins had her get older too.
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Except for the coal ones
(my search for this image was giving me a load of links to Dunning-Krugerrands, which it wasn’t the last time I looked for coal coins)
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And of course the big stone money.
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You mean to tell me that giant stone money isn’t metal as fuck, c’mon now?
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The symbol also looks a little bit like a Basil Wolverton character.
I think we can agree that there is no money that is heavier. 
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so what’s the story behind notgeld (beyond hyperinflation) Who, or what is TRVTZ?
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We’ve lowered our price by twenty cents.
It’s a paradigm shift.
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