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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;aem4162, post: 15335, member: 699&quot;]some the oldest coins i have are my henry iii, henry viii, elizabeth i, russia&#039;s ivan iv (ivan the terrible), and those from when the romanovs came to power.&nbsp; i&#039;ve always had a thing for english and imperial russian history so finding coins from the era adds something that i can hold and think about what was going on when they were minted and what happened to the people who used them.&nbsp; i think of how henry viii was so intent on having a male heir that he found whatever reasons he could to get rid of the wife who didn&#039;t present him with one (even though it wasn&#039;t her fault).&nbsp; elizabeth i didn&#039;t dare marry because she might&#039;ve lost the crown to her husband or someone else.&nbsp; i think of how peter i brought russia kicking and screaming into the 18th century and of how many people lost their lives in that pursuit, of how catherine the great took the throne from peter iii and then effectively ended the romanov line because she had so many lovers that no one knows who who fathered paul, and then i think of how the reign of nicholas ii began on a disastrous note, that he was horribly unsuited to be tsar, and if he&#039;d gotten his head of the clouds maybe the family might have escaped.&nbsp; why didn&#039;t his cousin george v arrange for them to go to england?&nbsp; that stuff just amazes me.&nbsp; on the other hand, i have a couple of nazi era german coins that i found years ago but don&#039;t mess with because the whole thing is disgusting and hateful.</p><p><br /></p><p>i faves are the coins grandma gave to me.&nbsp; she was born in 1911, but a hefty chunk of what she had was from the mid-1800s on and i don&#039;t know how she got them.&nbsp; how&#039;d she get the ef40 1888-p morgan that she gave me?&nbsp; i can&#039;t even ask her now and when i tried to find out when she was alive all she said was that she &quot;just got them&quot; - that doesn&#039;t help!</p><p><br /></p><p>i got an 1878-s ef45 trade dollar friday...where has it been?????</p><p><br /></p><p>history is da bomb <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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