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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 466390, member: 4626&quot;]Thanks!&nbsp; Am especially fond of the Korean one... love the turtle ship on the back; when I was stationed in Korea got a model of one as a going away gift from my unit.&nbsp; In the 16th century the Koreans used these to fight off Japanese pirates.&nbsp; They used a wooden ship with iron plates all over it to deflect gunfire (and even some indirect cannon fire) and would shoot at the enemy ships through portholes in the side.&nbsp; They were the first ironclad ships in the world, in a sense (though were still sail and oar powered, not steam powered).</p><p><br /></p><p>The large dragon-like head on the reverse of the Mexican note is a detail from a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl in Teotihuacan.&nbsp; It also appeared on a 5 peso coin issued in the 1970&#039;s and early 80&#039;s; one of the first coins given to me by my grandmother when she got me started in coin collecting (she travelled to Mexico a lot and collected many Mexican coins) was one of those.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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