Looking through old Billboard mags while chasing elusive info about Western Union’s public fax machines, ran across a permanent memorial to the last moment of sanity before political lunacy resumed.
In Dec 1945 the treasury issued the FDR dime. Billboard, serving coin-op vendors, was concerned that the dime wouldn’t fit current machines, but the treasury assured them that it would stay the same size and weight. The dime was placed in circulation in time for the first postwar March of Dimes campaign. Congress offered very little opposition. One idiot Repooflican tried to limit the treasury’s ability to issue new coins, but nobody else was interested.
Deepstate compromised Truman immediately after FDR died, and began its Long March to destroy civilization. They finished the job in 2020.
The FDR dime survived all the HUAC investigations, and still survives today. The Kennedy boys and their buddy Nixon destroyed the careers and reputations of all surviving New Dealers, but they didn’t melt the dime.
Reputations and careers flash and fizzle. Physical things endure.
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Sidenote: The Post Office’s forever stamp returns to a much older way of measuring by function instead of number. The Roman denarius was one day’s labor. The medieval English acre was one day of plowing. The old bus token or subway token purchased one ride, usually within a limited range of mileage. The forever stamp sends one letter. These functional standards remain the same while numerical measures flash and fizzle.
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