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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paul M., post: 4273212, member: 73165&quot;]Yay!&nbsp; Skully&#039;s back!&nbsp; Well, not the original Skully, I guess, but, still, a great token.&nbsp; I think I liked Skully I better overall, but I like how Skully II has a date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would absolutely love to have one of those ghetto tokens!&nbsp; I find it very easy to appreciate items like that while lamenting the circumstances under which they were made.&nbsp; I put them in the same bucket as Hawaii overprint notes or notgeld.: the history behind them is too important to forget.</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of years ago, I had my eye on a Hitler election token that I liked, but couldn&#039;t bring myself to pull the trigger on.&nbsp; I have to admit that part of the reason was that I had just started seeing my current girlfriend, who is Jewish, and I wasn&#039;t ready to have to explain that to her.&nbsp; Today, it would be no problem, but, back then, I wasn&#039;t so sure.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, and, in light of current events, your <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian" rel="nofollow">Justinian</a> tremissis has become a little cooler than it was a few months ago. It would be relatively easy to nab a coin from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Plague" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonine_Plague" rel="nofollow">Antonine Plague</a>, if you were so inclined, as well.&nbsp; It would probably be much harder to find a coin from the time of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" rel="nofollow">Black Death</a>, just because it didn&#039;t last nearly as long as the Antonine Plague, but there are definitely some cool 14th century coins out there that could probably stand in for it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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