Silver Coins and Fortunes

Adoring silver coins people always try to provide coins with superior power. They believe in happiness and success the coins bring. Sometimes coins seal the fate. For example for lucky Illinois sheriff William Gribble the silver eagle was determining. There were two candidates for this post and both collected equal votes. His contender suggested flipping a coin and letting it to decide their fortune. “Heads or tails?”, Gribble choose heads and was lucky to get the post.

Coins on the ground - lucky day

In addition there is a good omen to find the coin on the ground. Not silver only - any coin. That means one would have a lucky day. The phrase “A penny for your thoughts” also associated with coin and widespread among English spoken nations. That means one is ready to pay a penny to grasp what the other person is thinking about. American movies from 1950’s often use that phrase. No one share a penny for that indeed but it is a good way to start the discussion and attract one’s attention.

But in times when movie was not invented the silver coins were already serving humanity faithfully. People would put a silver coin in container of milk or water. As silver has anti germ properties the coin would make the milk last longer without turning sour. This was in days when there were no refrigerators. Silver coins are one of the most effective metallic inhibitors of bacterial growth.

Referees coin World Cup at 1974

A silver coin determined the winner of the World Cup at 1974. Referee used a large Indonesian silver coin with a face value 2 000 rupees. It nicknamed “a tiger” because of imperial beast was minted on the “heads” side. By the way “rupee” is originally from Hindi word which means “the silver coin“.