Where did the expression "my two cents" come from?

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I am a native speaker of American English, and read approximately 15000 non-electronic pages per year.

Want to talk? You can email me at drm651 [at] gmail.com

For now I'm retired from SE, since it's hard to stop once started on it, and I can let a lot of time go by without noticing.

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