# Buddy, can you spare a dime?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 14, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251 "2000-02-14T16:48:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/1 "2000-02-14T16:48:00Z")

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Any coin experts? What is on the back of the Roosevelt dime?

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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/2 "2000-02-14T16:54:00Z")

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According to the U S Mint, they are L-R: Olive branch, Torch,and Oak branch. They symbolize liberty, peach, strength and independence.

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/3 "2000-02-14T17:05:00Z")

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> Originally posted by NickyLarson:  
> **…They symbolize liberty, peach, strength and independence.**

Hey, that’s great! I’ve been looking for peach, love, and happiness! (I guess that’s “peach” as in “impeach”…to commemorate “impeached” US Presidents, huh?

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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/4 "2000-02-14T17:11:00Z")

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I hope you’ll have peach, love and understanding for me. I mean, what’s so funny about that?

:o

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Then we’ll turn our tommy guns  
on the screaming ravaged nuns  
and the peoples voice will be the only sound.  
-P. Sky

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/5 "2000-02-14T17:14:00Z")

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> Originally posted by NickyLarson:  
> \*\*… I mean, what’s so funny about that? \*\*

I take it “peach” was a typo, right?  
😕

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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/6 "2000-02-14T17:18:00Z")

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I thought the peach was on the Georgia Quarter. Or is that a butt with a leaf stuck up it? 😃

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What would Brian Boitano do / If he was here right now /  
He’d make a plan and he’d follow through / That’s what Brian Boitano would do.

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**Author:** ![Ursa\_Major](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@Ursa\_Major](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ursa_Major)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/7 "2000-02-14T17:22:00Z")

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Jinx, I think Nicky was referencing an Elvis Costello song, there.

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**Author:** ![NickyLarson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b2d939/32.png) [@NickyLarson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NickyLarson)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2000, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/8 "2000-02-14T17:26:00Z")

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Yes Ursa, I was. I guess Jinx is like his TV.

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Then we’ll turn our tommy guns  
on the screaming ravaged nuns  
and the peoples voice will be the only sound.  
-P. Sky

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**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/buddy-can-you-spare-a-dime/7251/9 "2000-02-15T16:11:00Z")

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Sorry, I don’t “Costello”.