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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3384702, member: 57463"][ATTACH=full]898950[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The Twentieth Century: Fascism... Communism...</p><p>Left MAGYAR KIRALYSAG (Hungarian Kingdom. Actually a fascist "regency" holding place for a missing king). 1 Pengö The word "pengö" while loosely derived perhaps from "pfennig" is an onomatopoeia for "bingle" meaning that it rang like silver versus collapsing like paper. This coin was 0.640 fine. 0.1029 ASW sez Krause SCWC.</p><p><br /></p><p>Not that the Reds don't appreciate expediency. Center: Kossuth Lajos obverse; national coat of arms reverse. 5 Forint 1947 .1929 ASW. 12 grams 0.500 fine. (The coins of 1946 were 20 grams 0.835 fine Latin Monetary Standard but communism is expensive.) "MAGYAR KÖZTÁRSASÁG" (Hungarian Republic. But you need to understand the root words in "community" and "collective" and from there to "village" and thence "public" things.</p><p><br /></p><p>Far right. Commorative for Sándor Csoma de Kőrös who taught himself philology and then walked to Tibet in search of the ancestral home of the Hungarians. It was not there... but he did write the first western dictionary and grammar of the Tibetan language while in the employ of the British consulate. (Biography of him on my blog here: <a href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/05/sandor-korosi-csoma.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/05/sandor-korosi-csoma.html" rel="nofollow">https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/05/sandor-korosi-csoma.html</a>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3384702, member: 57463"][ATTACH=full]898950[/ATTACH] The Twentieth Century: Fascism... Communism... Left MAGYAR KIRALYSAG (Hungarian Kingdom. Actually a fascist "regency" holding place for a missing king). 1 Pengö The word "pengö" while loosely derived perhaps from "pfennig" is an onomatopoeia for "bingle" meaning that it rang like silver versus collapsing like paper. This coin was 0.640 fine. 0.1029 ASW sez Krause SCWC. Not that the Reds don't appreciate expediency. Center: Kossuth Lajos obverse; national coat of arms reverse. 5 Forint 1947 .1929 ASW. 12 grams 0.500 fine. (The coins of 1946 were 20 grams 0.835 fine Latin Monetary Standard but communism is expensive.) "MAGYAR KÖZTÁRSASÁG" (Hungarian Republic. But you need to understand the root words in "community" and "collective" and from there to "village" and thence "public" things. Far right. Commorative for Sándor Csoma de Kőrös who taught himself philology and then walked to Tibet in search of the ancestral home of the Hungarians. It was not there... but he did write the first western dictionary and grammar of the Tibetan language while in the employ of the British consulate. (Biography of him on my blog here: [url]https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2013/05/sandor-korosi-csoma.html[/url])[/QUOTE]
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