I sent a photo historian in Boston your latest issue, since it features a Massachusetts article. And I wanted to dazzle him with it.

He could not imagine doing such a publication weekly. And for over twenty years was unreal.

Thanks for enabling me to dazzle such people.

John Dannreuther and I wondering if Lot 628, the Fugio die, from Chapman's 11/16 -17 1900 Maris sale is plated.

Some further definitions of fippenny etc. that can be traced back to 1607.

Being a Canadian, the terms fippence, and its close associate fippenny, are new to me. It is possible that that there were some early Canadians, probably of British origin, who used these terms to refer to our five-cent denomination. This would justify Appleton's New English-Spanish, Spanish-English Dictionary believing them to be Canadian terms.

However, more astute than Appleton is the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED does not list fippenny, but fippence does appear as a colloquialism and corruption of five pence, which certainly does make sense. More than this, and in the thorough style of the OED, historic uses of the term are:

1607 R. C. World of Wonders 50 Women gorgeously apparelled, finicall and fine as fippence.

1721 J. Kelly Scot. Prov. 18 As fine as Fippence, you'll give a Groat raking.

1823 Blackw. Mag. XIII. 457 On leaving the lush-crib, we can figure them giving fippence to the drawer

To me, this firmly establishes fippence as a term used in England and not extensively in Canada.

I saw the so-called Mystery Token Banquet de Lille which is typically a tin medal made in 1848 at Lille, France, and there is one in the collection of the Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris.