"piece of ass" huge antedate

[sclements at NEO.RR.COM]

Perhaps an illiterate one.  "As" was the designation of the copper coin, not "Ass."

Sam Clements

---- W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> Coulda been a numismatist, interested in Roman coins.
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