I found this shilling near a clothes line. I am humbled to think that people have hung their laundry between those same two trees for nearly four generations. That’s real permanence.
Great-great-grandma didn’t check the pockets closely one day and out fell King George. There he lay during the next week’s laundry and the week after that and so on for 81 years till I came along.

I’m going back to check the other end of that clothes line! This can’t be the only time Great-great-grandfather left change in his pocket. I know I do it at least once a week!