Numbers

[wolven7]

I will say the name of a coin. You tell me what number it makes you think of. Please go a bit deeper than the value of the coin. Ready?

2000 Brittish One Pound Coin (Dragon Passant) 20

1990 One Deutsche Mark 89

1971 100 lira coin 5

1980 Susan B Anthony Dollar 25

1995 Irish Ten Pence

1971 JFK Fifty Cent Piece. 7

One coin per person. Go.

Comments

[karishi.livejournal.com]

The Susan B Anthony: Prize for honors achievement at Atherton Magnet. Also, the D&D Gold Piece.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hm. Interesting.

Atherton closes on 5/20=1/4=.25

And 25 is the number I expected someone to say for this one.

[raidingparty.livejournal.com]

I started to do all of them before I read "One coin per person".

"2000 Brittish One Pound Coin (Dragon Passant)" - Merlin tale of the two dragons trapped beneath a castle? I don't remember the specifics, but it's definitely in there. 20.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

That is also the number I went with.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

2000 Brittish One Pound Coin (Dragon Passant)

the number 16.

i think because i've basically had to inscribe in my little culinary heart the phrase "a pints a pound the world around"
and everyone knows a pint is 16 ounces.

so a pound is 16. everywhere.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Zachary got to it first.

Quit, Fail, Retry?

[raoin.livejournal.com]

sorry, i didnt realize that by one coin per person you meant each coin to one person only.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I realised I was a little unclear on that one.

First come, first considered is the way I meant it.

[raoin.livejournal.com]

the lira piece is 5. both of which, for some reason, i associate with the tarantella and the villanelle.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hm. Mine was 15. Not bad.

[opalblack.livejournal.com]

1990 One Deutsche Mark

89. Or one.

Watching the Berlin Wall being torn down on TV, feeling the hope and the power even as a child with necessarily limited understanding of what that wall meant. Watching a new Germany being built out of the rubble. Cyndi Lauper singing "Another Brick in the Wall (part 2)" and me somehow understanding that the wall is always made of people, even when it's made of stone, and walls like that one will always fall, one day, because people always find ways to care and reach for freedom. I wish I still believed that.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thank you. If you combine the number you gave with the one I used, the difference is one.

[thehobbit.livejournal.com]

The JFK 50 cent piece is seven. My Dad left when I was 7 and the JFK pieces weren't for money but for collecting. I don't have the ones from back then but I do have one on my old desk to be given to a friend's son. For collecting.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that.