Two-up (game)

The Australian Oxford Dictionary defines two-up (or swy) as "a gambling game in which coins are spun in the air and bets placed on a showing of two heads or two tails".

Adelaide River, Northern Territory, 1943. Two-up games conducted to raise money for the prisoner-of-war fund.

Ypres, 1917. Australian soldiers playing two-up.

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