They made them look like this on purpose. Silver was too expensive for daily trade, so they minted weird shaped money with cheap metal to be used as credit tokens. [source]
https://laralfabian.com/2015/07/24/odd-bronzes-of-the-golden-age/
They made them look like this on purpose. Silver was too expensive for daily trade, so they minted weird shaped money with cheap metal to be used as credit tokens. [source]
https://laralfabian.com/2015/07/24/odd-bronzes-of-the-golden-age/
That's the way to charge a technical Toyota.
Ignoring the elephant in the room.
Another case of reckless adolescents with no respect to traditions.
You had your Disney princess moment and you wasted it
According to Google translate the visible part says: "Independent, curious and ruthless" which isn't that bad of a text.
Never heard of it so I had to look
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin
Eighty-six is slang meaning "to throw out," "to get rid of," or "to refuse service to." It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. There is varying anecdotal evidence about why the term eighty-six was used, but the most common theory is that it is rhyming slang for nix.
Why they didn't use Saline which is safe and hardly controlled instead of... tap water?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair_ice
Hair ice, also known as ice wool or frost beard, is a type of ice that forms on dead wood and takes the shape of fine, silky hair
That account is mostly parody. Here is another of their posts about "pot handle covers":