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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3743689, member: 10461&quot;]I&#039;m not really up to speed on the full backstory of these particular tokens, but Wikipedia has an article on <i><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori" rel="nofollow">memento mori</a></i> motifs.&nbsp; The gist of it, as I understand it, is that it was basically used as a solemn reminder of human mortality.&nbsp; In the context of these cathedral tokens, I gather the message must have been something like, <i>&quot;you&#039;re going to die someday, so you had better live a virtuous life while you&#039;re here&quot;</i>.&nbsp; Something like that.</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;re worth the price of grading to <i>me</i>, or will be, for a few pieces I&#039;ll select, as long as I&#039;m confident they&#039;ll straight-grade.&nbsp; After that, I&#039;ll pick one for my collection and sell the rest.&nbsp; But you&#039;re right that most people probably collect them raw.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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