[TheForge] Fw: Ancient metallurgy - US Bicentennial Bloom

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mrscherm at aol.com wrote:

> Can you imagine how low and stable the inflation rate must have been 
> back when they named "ten penny" nails etc. to have a name for a 
> product - related to cost, and have it remembered and stick as the 
> name of that product. I'll bet the Feds' Alan Greenspan is glad that 
> we didnt do our "ax project" very often.



I thought that was a weight not a monetary reference.

Mike Graf

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