Comment on Anyone notice how Brian Thompson dies and suddenly aliens start attacking?
sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 2 days agoSo I have no actual source on any kind of coinshot…
But why not use half pennies?
…wikipedia.org/…/Half_cent_(United_States_coin)
Yes, the US used to have half pennies.
Imagine buying an apple for $0.03½
Anyway, they stopped being minted in 1857, but that’s still within the early timeframe of ‘The West’, and I’d bet they were still used in circulation for another decade or two.
That’d be cheaper than using nickels, haha.
frezik@midwest.social 2 days ago
Looking up the size of coins compared to shotgun gauges, I’m guessing the tale was dimes rather than nickles. Dimes would fit in a 12 gauge just fine. A half penny would need a 6 gauge, and a full penny would need a 10 gauge. I don’t know for sure, but I don’t think 6 or 10 gauges were ever popular shotgun sizes.