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<p>[QUOTE="FreezerBurn, post: 1086408, member: 17848"]<font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3"><i>[FONT=&quot]It is obviously a Mexican Beer Dollar, hence the Dos Equis. Struck in Mexico City it pictures </i></font></font>[/FONT]<font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3">Lazaro Cardenas del Rio</font></font><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3"> in his last year as Master Brewer. The building on the reverse is a bar with an old “pouring tower” used before pressurized taps were introduced in Mexico in 1951. Beer was carried to the top and poured into a large reservoir where gravity fed it through pipes to taps throughout the bar. “Beer dollars” were the only accepted medium of exchange in bars with each establishment having their own design. Yours is in very good condition and definitely a keeper! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3">PS: GO STEELERS! </font></font></p><p><font face="Arial Narrow"><font size="3"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FreezerBurn, post: 1086408, member: 17848"][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=3][I][FONT="]It is obviously a Mexican Beer Dollar, hence the Dos Equis. Struck in Mexico City it pictures [/I][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][I][/I][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=3]Lazaro Cardenas del Rio[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial Narrow][SIZE=3] in his last year as Master Brewer. The building on the reverse is a bar with an old “pouring tower” used before pressurized taps were introduced in Mexico in 1951. Beer was carried to the top and poured into a large reservoir where gravity fed it through pipes to taps throughout the bar. “Beer dollars” were the only accepted medium of exchange in bars with each establishment having their own design. Yours is in very good condition and definitely a keeper! ;) PS: GO STEELERS! [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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