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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mitchell, post: 13798, member: 989&quot;]<b>History lesson via Numismatics</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This really tickled me, so I wanted to share it with all of you.&nbsp; Which you all probably know of this type of thing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like foreign coins, so I am always looking through ebay at the auctions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Today I found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;category=45156&amp;item=3919727202&amp;rd=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;category=45156&amp;item=3919727202&amp;rd=1" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;category=45156&amp;item=3919727202&amp;rd=1</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It aroused my curiosity because I have customers in a city, Kosciusko Mississippi, named after that guy.&nbsp; Of course, you deal with customers in a city with a name like that, you always wonder where they came up with that name.&nbsp; I assumed it was an Native American term.&nbsp; I was wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seeing that auction peaked my curiosity, so I did a search and found this:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.nps.gov/thko/indepth.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nps.gov/thko/indepth.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.nps.gov/thko/indepth.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.polishworld.com/polemb/const/tk.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.polishworld.com/polemb/const/tk.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.polishworld.com/polemb/const/tk.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Am I the only one that finds this kind of thing really cool?</p><p><br /></p><p>And to think that Poland thinks so much of our nation, that they honor a man that helped US win our Liberty.</p><p><br /></p><p>Too cool!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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