Silver shilling
1000 words memoir
4 min readSep 9, 2022
Today I’ve learnt myth-busting fact: 1954 British shilling is cupronickel, not silver. Thirty years of delusion.
I was on my tiptoes waiting for the class to be dismissed. Right after the school bell rang, I rushed to the bookstore a few blocks away. A spacious store occupied the first two floors of the large apartment building. Once inside, I took the staircase to the upper…
