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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 8160427, member: 57495&quot;]Well, that&#039;s just one possibility. Short of your seller spilling the beans, your guess is probably as good as mine (and probably more interesting). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, it&#039;s always fun to know how our coins got around. The most recent Leu auction had a bunch of lots billed as being from &quot;<i>the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with &#039;four socks of old coins&#039; in reward.</i>&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll never know if that story is really true, but I&#039;m eagerly awaiting the arrival of the one coin I won that might have spent time in someone&#039;s smelly sock during WWI. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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