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<p>[QUOTE="differential, post: 7695457, member: 120104"]Good timing on your note--I just sent an email complimenting the bank workers, went right up the food chain and wrote to the CEO. (It's a small-town bank.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently purchased 10 pounds of world coins from a wholesaler and am slowing going through them. I want to be able to tell about each one, as if I were presenting to a club. (But there's no clubs around here!) I have an interesting Papal Medal from WWI--"Healing the Wounds of War." It appears to combine the Good Samaritan parable with the Sermon on the Mount--burying the Dead, Healing the Sick.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also have an interesting Vatican 5 Lire coin from 1939. On the reverse there is a picture of St. Peter in a boat. The wind and waves are strong and he looks like he might perish--still, he prays for safety.</p><p><br /></p><p>One might interpret this coin and a metaphor for what was going on in Europe (and elsewhere) at the time. But since the basic design has been on Papal and Vatican coins since at least the 1400s, it has probably served as an allegory for many other uncertain times as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do you notice themes on the WW II coins you are collecting? That is an area I've been interested in since high school, when I read William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich."</p><p><br /></p><p>All the best.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="differential, post: 7695457, member: 120104"]Good timing on your note--I just sent an email complimenting the bank workers, went right up the food chain and wrote to the CEO. (It's a small-town bank.) I recently purchased 10 pounds of world coins from a wholesaler and am slowing going through them. I want to be able to tell about each one, as if I were presenting to a club. (But there's no clubs around here!) I have an interesting Papal Medal from WWI--"Healing the Wounds of War." It appears to combine the Good Samaritan parable with the Sermon on the Mount--burying the Dead, Healing the Sick. Also have an interesting Vatican 5 Lire coin from 1939. On the reverse there is a picture of St. Peter in a boat. The wind and waves are strong and he looks like he might perish--still, he prays for safety. One might interpret this coin and a metaphor for what was going on in Europe (and elsewhere) at the time. But since the basic design has been on Papal and Vatican coins since at least the 1400s, it has probably served as an allegory for many other uncertain times as well. Do you notice themes on the WW II coins you are collecting? That is an area I've been interested in since high school, when I read William Shirer's "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich." All the best.[/QUOTE]
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