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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 649599, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Doffing my hat</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Nice find there, Traci! The only other coin I know not from a communist country with the hammer and sickle is the Austria 100 Schilling gold from the 1920s and 1930s.&nbsp; The hammer and sickle replaced the Orb and Scepter of the Holy Roman Emperor.&nbsp; This is all the more interesting as Austria was the home of the so-called &quot;Austrian School&quot; of economists who completely demolished the pretenses of socialism.&nbsp; Their founder, Boehm-Bawerk was on the old Austrian 100 Schilling note before the euro in the late 1980s.&nbsp; Furthermore, while Germany sank into depression and worse, Austria borrowed gold, stabilized its currency and achieved a nominal prosperity before Anschluss.&nbsp; And... Austria also had the &quot;woergl&quot; (named after the city), a kind of community currency somewhat different from Notgeld that seemed to work and has been looked to by present practicioners of community economics.&nbsp; Be all that as it may, again, thanks! Tracy for the lesson.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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