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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dougmeister, post: 2418896, member: 56842&quot;]Without getting into the pros or cons of religion... Don&#039;t get my thread deleted. </p><p>Keep it on topic, <b>please</b>. Thank you.</p><p><br /></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p><br /></p><p>I am interested in picking up some coins that ML might have carried around in his pocket at some point during his lifetime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone provide me with some possibilities?</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently saw a&nbsp; Hungarian coin from that era, so that might work. Are there any Germanic State issues (since he was from Germany) that might be better candidates? There should be a few...</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some bullet points on his life:</p><ul> <li><font size="2">1483: Born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisleben" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eisleben" rel="nofollow">Eisleben</a>, Saxony (part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" rel="nofollow">Holy Roman Empire</a>)</font></li> <li><font size="2">1484: Moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfeld" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansfeld" rel="nofollow">Mansfeld</a> (his dad held copper mine and smelter leases)</font></li> <li><font size="2">1501: Entered the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Erfurt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Erfurt" rel="nofollow">University of Erfurt</a></font></li> <li><font size="2">1505: Entered a closed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Saint_Augustine" rel="nofollow">Augustinian</a> cloister in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt" rel="nofollow">Erfurt</a></font></li> <li><font size="2">1508: Began teaching theology at the newly-founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_University_of_Halle-Wittenberg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_University_of_Halle-Wittenberg" rel="nofollow">University of Wittenberg</a></font></li> <li><font size="2">1517: Writes a letter to his bishop; later becomes known as &quot;The 95 Theses&quot;</font></li> <li><font size="2">1518: &quot;95 Theses&quot; translated and copied via the Gutenburg printing press</font></li> <li><font size="2">1521: Excommunicated by Pope Leo X</font></li> </ul><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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