Cutting Coins
Meet Ethan! Last week, Ethan discovered half of a coin at the Archibald Blair Storehouse site. What kind of coin is difficult to say…it is so badly worn that its markings cannot be read…. but it was cut in half to make a purchase smaller than the value of a full coin. Coins could be cut in half, in quarters (like our quarters), or in “pieces of eight”(think “pirates”!). Earlier this summer we found...