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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3013633, member: 19463&quot;]Yes, perhaps, but what I like are replica/fakes with a story.&nbsp; I would like a genuine, original Becker fake now over 200 years old or a struck Paduan.&nbsp; So far my best item in the category was a dekadrachm passed out with bicycle catalogs in 1898 by the Stearns Bicycle Co. located in Syracuse (NY, that is). They used Roman numerals because even the educated cyclist of the day would have stumbled at 1898 in Greek. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]747813[/ATTACH] </p><p><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Stearns-bicycle_1896-0503.jpg/600px-Stearns-bicycle_1896-0503.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>To me, the highlight of the catalog was a code page giving words you could wire to the company to order specific items but not incur a large expense at the telegraph office.&nbsp; Why say &quot;Ship by express a replacement Dunlop tire for my Combination Tandem bicycle&quot; when &quot;clock&quot; would serve the same purpose?</p><p><a href="http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1898-2/stearns-the-yellow-fellow-yearbook/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1898-2/stearns-the-yellow-fellow-yearbook/" rel="nofollow">http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/bikes-1800s/1898-2/stearns-the-yellow-fellow-yearbook/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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