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<p>[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 4131033, member: 97383"]Ike, your impressive 10 pfennig coin coin transcends "Hobo Nickel Art" by making a political statement <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. My father was born in Bochum, Germany in 1909 & knew the devastating effect of Germany losing WWI & the horrendous inflation that followed it. He managed to flee Germany in 1932 with a couple of small gold coins in his pocket & ended up in Rochester, NY. He didn't know a word of English but managed to get a job in a German restaurant as a dish washer shortly after arriving there. The German community was very strong in Rochester & they found a small room where he could stay until he could afford an apartment. The stock market crash of 1929 created a world wide depression & any kind of job was difficult to find in those days. I give the "old man" a lot of credit for immigrating in those though days & becoming successful <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 4131033, member: 97383"]Ike, your impressive 10 pfennig coin coin transcends "Hobo Nickel Art" by making a political statement ;). My father was born in Bochum, Germany in 1909 & knew the devastating effect of Germany losing WWI & the horrendous inflation that followed it. He managed to flee Germany in 1932 with a couple of small gold coins in his pocket & ended up in Rochester, NY. He didn't know a word of English but managed to get a job in a German restaurant as a dish washer shortly after arriving there. The German community was very strong in Rochester & they found a small room where he could stay until he could afford an apartment. The stock market crash of 1929 created a world wide depression & any kind of job was difficult to find in those days. I give the "old man" a lot of credit for immigrating in those though days & becoming successful :D.[/QUOTE]
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