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Does Not Like Fishsticks

Danny: When muscles and crazy beard designs collide. Can make boobs dance of their own vollition. Likes Fish Sticks.

Nathan: When cars and the man code collide. Likes Fish Sticks.

I do Like Fishsticks

The Proud Home of the 49 Cent Piece

The 49 Cent piece was a viable currency in the medieval which was quite common unitl Christopher Columbus returned from the New World with news that the coin was not accepted everywhere.

History
The 49 Cent Piece or the Traveler's Om Nom was originally conceived as a way to create smoother commerce in the middle ages. The 49 cent piece would eventually become a staple of Medieval economic exchanges. It became such a useful amount of money that the King of England himself, Henry the XXXVVVIII, decried that all goods and services would be sold for a price divisible by 49.

For a brief time, most other monetary units were fazed out of the system. The two dominations that remained for this period were the 49 cent piece and the even more obscure, Two Hen Nickel, which was worth exactly 67 cents.

These two monetary values remained prevalent in Europe until Columbus himself returned from the New World to explain to the King himself that the inhabitants of this new land would not accept currency in these amounts and that he required currency in 1 cent, 5 cent, 10 cent and 25 cent denominations. This lead to the creation of how our money is segmented today.

The 49 cent piece as well as the Two Hen Nickel would remain in circulation for a while, but eventually disappeared from transactions as they were no longer minted. You may still find a few in Europe or even North America, but the stigma around them is such that if you use them to pay for anything, you actually owe the attendant more money than originally agreed upon because you wasted their time with such arcane currency.

Little Known Fact about the 49 Cent Piece
The engraving on the back of the coin was the inspiration for the Lincoln Memorial

Additional Information
For more Information, Please contact your Local Historical Society or Minting Agency