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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numinaut, post: 3047366, member: 91259&quot;]Thank you both! I wonder that I only found Coin Talk a few months ago. Just a simple request to “Post your coins with old collector tags!” got me to pull out an old coin that was languishing in a drawer and start my mind wandering on a million subjects:&nbsp; </p><p>Where did I get it? Who owned it before? How to translate the German? What is the etymology of the word “horse?” It says 120 Marks on the back, that wasn’t much, maybe 30 bucks in 1990? Don&#039;t know - big dollar devaluation going on back in late &#039;80s. When was 120 marks a good price for these coins? Did I overpay at $400? Don’t really care, the coin has brought a lot of pleasure for 30 years. The faded tag and fountain pen writing must mean it’s old, but I remember we used fountain pens in junior high back in the early ‘60s, even though the bic pen was ubiquitous. Was that just a fad at the time because it was cool, or might it mean I just caught the tail end of the age of penmanship? </p><p>It goes on and on, and that is just me. Now I&#039;m thinking about all the other hands the coin has passed through in 2,400 years and what all those people thought about when they looked at it. Amazing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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