Gresham's law Crown in the city of Antwerp, to explain to Queen Elizabeth I what was happening to the English shilling. Her father, Henry VIII, had replaced 40 percent of the silver in the coin with base metals, to increase the government's income without raising taxes. Astute English merchants and even ordinary subjects would save the good shillings from pure silver and circulate the bad ones; hence, the bad money would be used whenever possible, and the good coinage would be saved and disappear from circulation. Gresham was not the first to state the law which took his name. The phenomenon had
The Good Bad Egg all of Florabell's fine chinaware. "The Good Bad Egg" is a remake of the Andy Clyde short film "Knee Action" (1937). The Good Bad Egg The Good Bad Egg was an American comedy short released by Columbia Pictures on March 20, 1947, starring Joe DeRita, who later joined the Three Stooges and became "Curly Joe" DeRita, and featuring Dorothy Granger, and Norman Ollestead. This was the second of four shorts in the Joe DeRita series produced by Columbia from 1946-1948; all entries were remakes of other Columbia shorts. Joe Priggle (Joe DeRita) is an inventor staying at a rest home