Paul Stamler wrote:
> An explanation which may not hold water. I believe the standard postage at
> the time was one cent (it was three cents in the 1950s, when I was small),
> so why would a three-cent coin be particularly expeditious in paying for
> postage? Philatelists out there: was there some special-delivery-type
stamp
> that sold for three cents and was in enormous demand? (Not air mail,
> needless to say. Unless it went by balloon. Or pigeon.)
Or fish. The coin was known as a "fish-scale".
Which brings us back to fishballs again. Or not.
Simon.
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