10-03-2003, 10:27 PM
[cool]Oh, cat_man, you're such a kidder. You know that coin was just in there as a size reference. With today's inflation you just can't hardly get much out of a quarter...especially as a buzz blade. What the nation needs...is a good 5 cent quarter.
But, y'know there used to be folks that hammered out quarters and dimes and made little spoons out of them...when they were mostly silver. It's hard to beat the flash of pure silver underwater. I had a friend who lived up by Lake Tahoe and he went around buying up rolls of coins for the silver ones, about the time we went through the change...back in the mid sixties. He did a lot of ice fishing in the lakes in the Sierras and claimed that nothing worked better than his "two bit" lures.
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But, y'know there used to be folks that hammered out quarters and dimes and made little spoons out of them...when they were mostly silver. It's hard to beat the flash of pure silver underwater. I had a friend who lived up by Lake Tahoe and he went around buying up rolls of coins for the silver ones, about the time we went through the change...back in the mid sixties. He did a lot of ice fishing in the lakes in the Sierras and claimed that nothing worked better than his "two bit" lures.
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