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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 15661, member: 57463&quot;]&quot;Those&quot; words are among the oldest words in our language, or in any language.&nbsp; Among the Indo-European family of languages, &quot;those&quot; words show strong similarities.&nbsp; For instance, &quot;this&quot; particular word can mean &quot;crease&quot; in Russian, and shows up in the &quot;wedge writing&quot; we call &quot;cuneiform&quot; and therefore in the proper name for the medical study of human female health.&nbsp; Philologists know that k-words in Latin are H-words in German.&nbsp; Latin &quot;centum&quot; (pronounced &quot;kentum&quot;) is &quot;hundred&quot; in English.&nbsp; The Latin CARA becomes a similar but different word with a slightly dffferent meaning in English. In the comedy THE CLOUDS by Aristophanes (performed c.400 BC), the cultured student of Socrates asks our hapless hero which finger he uses to point with.&nbsp; &quot;When I was young, I used this one...&quot;&nbsp; Big laughs, even back then.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coin, there is no telling when this alteration was done.&nbsp; About forty years ago, they were sold as examples of an old time &quot;token&quot; among coin collectors, so there was some incentive to make more to meet the demand.&nbsp; So, there is no telling when someone defaced and therefore ruined this coin.&nbsp; Finding it &quot;in the ground&quot; is no indication of age.</p><p><br /></p><p>Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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