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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7517512, member: 110504&quot;]More fantastic examples, [USER=101855]@johnmilton[/USER].&nbsp; Never knew the story of how the first experiment with a screw press ended.&nbsp; ...Just the other day, some show on public radio (mmMaybe &#039;Radiolab&#039;) was talking about how scientific and technological innovations can suffer from having been <i>ahead </i>of their time.&nbsp; Yeah, a plague would kind of do it.&nbsp; Sad about how the guy wound up.</p><p>As a footnote, I have a couple of halfgroats from the beginning of the reign of&nbsp; Charles II (sorry, no pics).&nbsp; Of the two, the first one is another early essay in milled coinage; the one from a year or two later is back to being hammered.&nbsp; ...Not long afterward, Charles&#039;s issues made the permanent transition to milled.&nbsp; But it was a process....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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