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<p>[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2492304, member: 39"]Great writeup, thanks! The name Caffa rang a bell here: In that city (Feodosia) there is a money museum which also has some fine examples of historic coins. See here: <a href="http://www.museum-of-money.org/goroda-feodosii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.museum-of-money.org/goroda-feodosii" rel="nofollow">http://www.museum-of-money.org/goroda-feodosii</a> (Some additional info about the museum is here: <a href="http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/" rel="nofollow">http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/</a> ) <i>Edit - Both links take you to English language pages, even though you may see Cyrillic characters first.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>The plague had another "side" effect by the way. Many people in central Europe believed that the Jews had poisoned the wells, and thus caused the disease. In quite a few cities, the Jews (who had so far lived in relative peace along with the Christians) were then killed even before the plague came ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="chrisild, post: 2492304, member: 39"]Great writeup, thanks! The name Caffa rang a bell here: In that city (Feodosia) there is a money museum which also has some fine examples of historic coins. See here: [url]http://www.museum-of-money.org/goroda-feodosii[/url] (Some additional info about the museum is here: [url]http://muzeydeneg.ru/eng/[/url] ) [I]Edit - Both links take you to English language pages, even though you may see Cyrillic characters first.[/I] The plague had another "side" effect by the way. Many people in central Europe believed that the Jews had poisoned the wells, and thus caused the disease. In quite a few cities, the Jews (who had so far lived in relative peace along with the Christians) were then killed even before the plague came ... Christian[/QUOTE]
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