I don't know this Tanner but I do remember a couple of Tanners from the old days. Incidentally, did you guys know that a tanner is English slang for a sixpenny coin.
I didn't know that. lol
Now... What is a sixpenny coin? haha Is a sixpenny a lot? Or very little small change? Could you (or another Brit) give us a quick tutorial on British currency?
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We Americans' currency starts with the penny.
One penny= 1 cent.
A nickel= 5 cents.
A dime= 10 cents.
A quarter= 25 cents...or one-fourth or a quarter of a dollar.
A fifty cent piece (somewhat rare)= Duh. 50 cents! haha
A silver dollar (even more rare) is a silver-ish metal coin worth a dollar. (Or 100 cents.)
We also have two other silver dollar coins (beyond the more generic and better known type) which are legal currency but are rare and rarely used. One is the Susan B. Anthony one dollar coin. (Susan B. Anthony was a pivotal figure in the women's suffrage movement and helped American women officially gain the legal right to vote on August 18, 1920.) One other "silver dollar" is actually more gold-like in color rather than silver, and is a Sacagawea one dollar coin.
Sacagawea (a Native-American woman) has quite a fascinating story and history about her that's difficult to concisely put into one or two sentences. Here's one snippet:
"Sacagawea, also Sakakawea or Sacajawea, was a Lemhi Shoshone woman, who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition, acting as an interpreter and guide, in their exploration of the Western United States. She traveled thousands of miles from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean between 1804 and 1806."
https://www.definitions.net/definition/Sacagawea
Here's another:
"Sacagawea (/səˌkɑːɡəˈwiːə/; also Sakakawea or Sacajawea; May 1788 – December 20, 1812 or April 9, 1884) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who, at age 16, met and helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition in achieving their chartered mission objectives by exploring the Louisiana Territory."
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea
Here's a few other factoids:
1805:
On May 14, 1805, Sacagawea rescued items that had fallen out of a capsized boat, including the journals and records of Lewis and Clark.
1805:
The corps commanders, who praised her quick action, named the Sacagawea River in her honor on May 20, 1805.
[The Sacagawea River is in the north-central part of the state of Montana.]
1809:
After the expedition, Charbonneau and Sacagawea spent three years among the Hidatsa before accepting William Clark's invitation to settle in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1809. [Toussaint Charbonneau was the husband of Sacagawea]
Source:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=who+i...a&cc=US&setlang=en-US&elv=AY3!uAY7tbNNZGZ2yiG
Back to currency! Haha
Then there's the paper currencies:
1 dollar bill.
2 dollar bill. (Very rare and rarely used. Some people strangely enough consider them unlucky. I do not. lol)
5 dollar bill.
10 dollar bill.
20 dollar bill.
50 dollar bill.
100 dollar bill.
There are a several more U.S. currency notes that are no longer printed. They are so rare that usually only a few employees of banks and other financial institutions have ever laid eyes on them. Today you would most likely need to be a wealthy collector in order to have any of these or perhaps see any of them in person. I myself have never seen any of these. Maybe you'll understand why when you see the amounts of the denominations. haha
There is the:
500 dollar bill.
1,000 dollar bill.
5,000 dollar bill.
10,000 dollar bill.
100,000 dollar bill.
"The faces on larger denominations that are out of circulation—the $500, $1,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $100,000 bills—are also those of men who served as president and Treasury secretary."
"The Treasury stopped printing the larger notes in 1945, but most continued to circulate until 1969 when the Federal Reserve began destroying those that were received by banks. The few that still exist are legal to spend but are so rare that they are worth more than their face value to collectors."
Source:
https://www.thoughtco.com/faces-on-us-currency-4153995