The gain in price for that silver dollar amounts to a little more than 1 billion percent, but the half disme went up more than 2 billion percent and the penny climbed almost 10 billion percent. |
|
And thus the wars they beginne, Whereof the holy church is taxed, That in the point, as it is axed, The disme go'th to the battaile. |
|
The coin is also called a Half Disme and often referred to as The Floyd Starr Example. |
|