Letter: Letters : Morse on money

From J. Silberberg

Melbourne, Australia

I spent some months in Canada in 1943 as a trainee in the RAF, eventually
flying in Bomber Command (51 Squadron RAF). We were trained to be proficient
in Morse code (Letters, 20 April, p 59).

The five-cent coins that Canada minted at that time were embossed with the
following code around the eight edges on one side:

.– . .– .. -. .– …. . -. .– . .– — .-. -.- .– .. .-.. .-.. .. -.
–. .-.. -.–

This translates to “We win when we work willingly”.