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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1261461, member: 12789&quot;]I am sure some here will take offence at this plaquette from Denmark, created by J.C. Chaplain and minted by Monnaie de Paris in 1896:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/misccoins/denmarkcarlsbergmedalfv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, I for one knowing that I lost family members to the Nazi&#039;s had qualms about even bidding on this.&nbsp; But here is the reality - it was created in 1896, some quarter of a century before the Nazi&#039;s hijacked the ancient symbol that had been used by Native Americans, people in India and in Europe as a good luck symbol.&nbsp; Like so many things the Nazi&#039;s stole and made their own, they also stole the swastika symbol and made it theirs.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Having a bit of a slow day one day I modified the image to make it more appropriate for presentation piece illustrating the fantastic artistry of J. C. Chaplain:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://scottishmoney.net/misccoins/denmarkbrewerymedalnoswastikas.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>A minute worth of my image software and the medal is now politically correct.&nbsp; But you know, reality is that the swastika was used as a symbol by the Carlsberg Brewery - curiously until the Nazi&#039;s pilfered it.&nbsp; The only thing still possessing the now offending symbol is the Carlsberg elephants guarding the gates to the brewery in Copenhagen:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.swastika-info.com/images/europa/denmark/carlsberg_elephant1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Those pre-date the Nazis, Hitler and all of their ilk.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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