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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8004175, member: 128351&quot;]In 1968 in France the BP gas stations (British Petroleum) started an advertising operation called &quot;Treasure of the Kings of France&quot;. For each fill of min. 20 liters of gas they gave a mystery pocket in which there was a reproduction of an historical coin. There were 20 different ones, from the ancient Gauls to Louis XVI. The reproductions were of one-side only, the other side just displayed the coin identification, some were gilded with real gold, and you could insert them in a cardboard collector. </p><p><br /></p><p>The success was incredible and 2 years after, in 1970, BP launched another similar promotional operation called &quot;Treasure of Ancient Coins&quot;. This time, for each fill you got reproductions of famous Greek coins like a Croesus&#039; stater, an Attic owl, decadrachmas of Syracuse or Carthage, a Roman republican as, etc. </p><p><br /></p><p>Needless to say that many kids begged their parents to refuel only in BP gas stations. They already had 4 Ptolemy tetradrachmas, 3 Attic owls, 2 Philip II staters, etc. but the demarateion or the Croesus&#039; stater was still missing in their collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Did they do it also in UK (BP is a British company, after all) or in other countries?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388585[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>and the Greek coins of 1970:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388586[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1388587[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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