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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mlov43, post: 2122688, member: 16729&quot;]Well, silver&#039;s certainly nice.</p><p><br /></p><p>That one must&#039;ve been minted during Mengistu Haile Mariam&#039;s rule.&nbsp; His was a communist military junta that ran Ethiopia from 74 to 87.&nbsp; A time of civil war for that country.</p><p><br /></p><p>I used to work with some Ethiopian people at a hospital once years ago.&nbsp; One of them was a woman whose name was &quot;Abiyot&quot; which meant &quot;Communist&quot; in Amharic.&nbsp; She was born during that time, and such names were encouraged there.&nbsp; She ditched that name and later went by the name, &quot;Mimi&quot; instead.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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