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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5617286, member: 110504"]Wow. Very cool, [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER]. Gotta love those early, 15th-century prototypes of modern arabic numerals. Magnificent.</p><p>...The one time I ever was in Europe, on a family trip in 1973 (I was 11 --optimally impressionable), we spent most of the time sponging off of a naturalized aunt and her husband in western Germany (...as it still is; my uncle regaled us with translations of jokes about Saarlanders). We were in one of several exquisite, small local towns. Going down the street for (see if I can remember this: ) Eis Krem, you could pass a whole row of houses, with the dates of their construction engraved above the doorways. They were all impressively old, but one that stood out was from the 1490's, with a numeral "4" very similar to the one on your example.</p><p>...The scarcity of which is only now starting to really 'register.' Hearty congratulations on your coup![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5617286, member: 110504"]Wow. Very cool, [USER=73385]@tibor[/USER]. Gotta love those early, 15th-century prototypes of modern arabic numerals. Magnificent. ...The one time I ever was in Europe, on a family trip in 1973 (I was 11 --optimally impressionable), we spent most of the time sponging off of a naturalized aunt and her husband in western Germany (...as it still is; my uncle regaled us with translations of jokes about Saarlanders). We were in one of several exquisite, small local towns. Going down the street for (see if I can remember this: ) Eis Krem, you could pass a whole row of houses, with the dates of their construction engraved above the doorways. They were all impressively old, but one that stood out was from the 1490's, with a numeral "4" very similar to the one on your example. ...The scarcity of which is only now starting to really 'register.' Hearty congratulations on your coup![/QUOTE]
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