Sunday, June 24, 2007

Confoederatio Helvetica

So I went to the Mermaid Day parade yesterday and I thought I'd just say how zany and bizarre some of the outfits were since I didn't think I was going to find anything unusual.

Well, I got upstaged.

At the Coney Island station on the F train as I walking down the ramp to exit the station, I saw a coin. It was faded grey and I thought it looked like an odd dime.

I picked it up and saw that it was foreign....truly foreign. The inscription was "Confoederatio Helvetica" and on the back it simply had 5.

When I got home, I found out that I had picked up a coin worth 5 Swiss centimes. The date on the coin was from 1966. Bizarre....just like the parade.

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