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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 61952, member: 57463&quot;]You have a good eye for trees.&nbsp; Have you seen the forest?&nbsp; In 1888, the world was enjoying a long-running high water mark of relative peace and prosperity.&nbsp; Victorian homes were stuffed with knicknacks because people had disposable income.&nbsp; Science was expanding our frontiers of knowledge in new and exciting ways -- and those discoveries (new elements! The Michelson-Morley Experiment!) were in the newspapers.&nbsp; Telegraph and telephone were linking the world.&nbsp; Railroads crossed continents.&nbsp; The first Sherlock Holmes story was published in 1887.&nbsp; (Watson was wounded in Afghanistan.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Not only that -- but was the &quot;half crown&quot; not struck to provide a decimal staging to Britains LSD (pounds-shillings-pence) coinage?&nbsp; Just as America was experimenting with a $4 coin and &quot;golloid.&quot;&nbsp; These were taproots of internationalism, spreading out to unite the world in trade and commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p>... but it all went away... leaving us with the 20th century and this nice coin with its light honest wear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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