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The Silver Shilling (Story Time, Episode 157)
Story Time (Related to this series)
- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Publish Date
- 4 August 2025
- Run Time
- 12 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Narrator
- Sam Kusi
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 August 2025
- ISBN
- 9783711922342
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Lauscher Audiobooks
- Genre
- Traditional or cultural fiction and true stories, tales and retellings
Synopsis
There was once a shilling; it came out bright and shiny from the mint, and sprang up, shouting, "Hurrah! Now I'm going out into the wide world!" And into the wide world he went. The child held it with soft, tender hands; the miser clutched it with cold, clammy fingers; the old man turned it over many times before letting it go; while the youth immediately passed it along. The Shilling was of silver, with very little copper in it; already it had been in the world for a whole year now-that is, in the country where it was made. But one day it started to travel to foreign lands; it was the last native coin in the purse that the traveling gentleman had with him. He himself didn't know he had this coin until it happened to come between his fingers.
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