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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 2369577, member: 57463&quot;]This is from my convention report on my blog:</p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000066"><br /></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000066">&quot;The best part of any numismatic convention is what you did not expect to learn. I was sitting at a table waiting for the dealer and the guy next to me was admiring a banknote. It was French Overseas Territories, a nice note with a fair price to go with it, but way beyond my interest. I asked him where it was from. Neither of us recognized the territory.&nbsp; So, he googled it.&nbsp; We both were even more puzzled. The note showed Africans and grass huts. &quot;They&#039;re gonna be pretty cold in Newfoundland,&quot; I said. He googled it again and got the same answer</span></font>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRTkG4gscYk/VuDZ1FGEPvI/AAAAAAAAEdM/A42D0UjSs0o/s1600/Saint%2BP%2Bet%2BM.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRTkG4gscYk/VuDZ1FGEPvI/AAAAAAAAEdM/A42D0UjSs0o/s1600/Saint%2BP%2Bet%2BM.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jRTkG4gscYk/VuDZ1FGEPvI/AAAAAAAAEdM/A42D0UjSs0o/s320/Saint%2BP%2Bet%2BM.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><b>Aluminum but still pretty.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #000066">That night, in my room, I fired up my computer and read about<b>St. Pierre et Miquelon.</b> It is the only French Overseas Territory in North America.&nbsp; Following the French-Indian Wars, it stayed with France. Over the years it changed hands as a result of this treaty or that. For some years, it apparently was unpopulated. During World War II, the official government was supposed to be under Vichy, but the people kicked them out and went Free French. The banknote series is intended for all of the territories in general, with the specific territory added as an overprint. Hence, the tropical theme for the very untropical St. Pierre et Miquelon. Then, I found a set of uncirculated 1F and 2F coins, which I added to my collection. The obverse features a woman with wings on her head. I have them from other French colonies with my set of Mercury numismatics.&quot;</span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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