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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gxseries, post: 82674, member: 4373&quot;]lol - You know, I found the token to be extremely ironic. </p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example of a kopek coin minted before 1730. </p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/901655.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Or another example is here: </p><p><img src="http://www.omnicoin.com/coins/901691.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The keypoint is how the St. George slaying the dragon theme is used. On the obverse, you get to see George managed to slay the dragon, but on the reverse, you get to see a bunch of &quot;him&quot; running away. </p><p><br /></p><p>Well my best bet of why this token is in English is most likely due to that a Britsh company minted it to commemorate this event. It is quite unlikely a token minted by other countries as the usual circumstances is that the text would usually denote the origins. I guess this could be part of the British humor that they love to use - afterall, there weren&#039;t too many countries like the British who at that time were leading the world&#039;s minting technology. </p><p><br /></p><p>Very interesting token indeed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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