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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlubao, post: 2428899, member: 78903&quot;]@<b>EWOMACK</b>: Gorgeous- love it.&nbsp; Great pic. That is art to me. To my surprise, English coins were quite affordable for the ones I wanted-&nbsp; That is, I wanted coins that circulated in the colonies to compliment my 1793 penny and other 1796/7 minted types. You know, just to demonstrate the contrast in art, skill and experience.&nbsp; I picked up a striking 1787 George III w/o hearts MS63 shilling for $90. Compare that to the XF Fugio I bought for $1,495. I was sort of surprised to get 17th century English half -penny, penny for under $40.&nbsp; But then again, I have not tried to get a 17th century guinea... yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>@<b>GDJMSP</b>: Excellent and elucidating comment.&nbsp; Many thanks.&nbsp; However, as a layman general history buff, I cannot resist your tease: &quot;<i>Now I could go on and tell you how a tiny little country</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Off the top of my head because I am patriotically &amp; egocentrically biased: my gut tells me that due to the mish-mash of coinage in colonies from Dutch, English, New Netherlands, New Sweden, New France and Portugal (via Caribbean or piracy) trade influence, the US had some say but definitely not the final word (I can hear and see the tavern or dockside arguments over payment values in my imagination: &quot;I&#039;ll pay 3 guilders&quot;... &quot;What? Damn, where&#039;s my scale!&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p>Your clues: &quot;tiny little country&quot; &amp; &quot;became the most powerful trading nation in the world&quot; make it difficult for me speculate or guess.&nbsp; My initial reaction was Spain ( but tiny?) due to the hastily made cobs of reales.&nbsp; I know they were widely accepted in the colonies and I believe the stability (or constancy) of the Spanish dollar convinced Hamilton that decimal system as the way to go. The US and Spain certainly became a powerful trading nations but definitely not tiny.&nbsp; So that rules them out despite the ruling decimal system. But now I waiver a bit- is the decimal system predominate worldwide today?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I will shoot from the hip and make a guess though I know absolutely nothing about foreign coins or currency:&nbsp; Japan.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t see it because I have never even seen or heard of Japanese currency or coinage in any historical documents or books that I have read.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am curious so who is it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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