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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ErolGarip, post: 2811854, member: 88736&quot;]Chrisild, I now see you are not in USA, but, in Germany. While I&#039;ve been studying the coin (not for collection) in last years, I&#039;ve read some news about Germany saying that they&#039;ve imported some trucks of coins (from Austria market or somewhere I don&#039;t remember now.) Then, I thought this. Germany is serious, resisting, to keep the small coins in the market. I appreciated their much effort of Germany in that, probably, you are the only country in the world about that. So, Germany deserve some contribution also from people like me outside of Germany. Maybe, Japan too deserve, but, I don&#039;t know what&#039;s happening about this there, they are circulating small coins really? Or, like all other countries, they too have given up circulating minor coins? It is true that the inflation is the main cause for the smaller coins disappearing. In some places, rate of increase of inflation is faster that makes smaller coins disappear in the market faster. In Germany, it is slower that is making smaller coins disappear slowly. If it is to be generalized to whole world and whole time, general trend is the coin (read small money here for the moment) has always been disappearing in the space and in the time (in the language of mathematical physics field which I too was in some decades ago.) Anyway, we&#039;ll be back to this subject later, after closing our talks about other things, after learning current stiuation of the coin world... </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, it is understandable that folks have been playing &quot;games&quot; and they have named it &quot;head or tail&quot; or &quot;Kopf or Zahl&quot;, etc. But, still, there might be some interesting stories behind them. For example, the expression &quot;dime girl&quot;, meant to say beautiful/perfect girl. On the net, I checked the root of &quot;dime&quot;, found out it comes from the old Latin &quot;decima&quot;, the tenth. So, beauty of a girl was being graded as 10 in a scale 10. See, I arrived at the math again, I see measurement of girl beauty was being made by the math again. It is ok, still we do same or similar measurements. But, there is some fuzzyness in this approach when it is about the money. For example, if the biggest value money/currency in the US now is $100, $100 is perfect? No. If $100 existed some centuries ago, people living then would still have been inventing new idiom like &quot;hundred girl&quot; or &quot;centum girl&quot; using the Latin to indirectly say beautiful girl. It&#039;s ok, but, perfectness in the money is not $100, or as some may say nowadays, $10000000000000.... is not, either. It&#039;s something else, we&#039;ll talk later.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ps: Chrisild, and Kentucky, I can send a few kurus coin if you sent your shipping address by private msg. No, they are not collection items, not for anything as a return, either, just for this conversation. You know, any money currency (by convertibility) can be sent easily by electronically, but, not the coin which is local property everywhere in the world. So, another aspect of the coin is there is effort that is not only local thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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