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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2637486, member: 42634&quot;]HAPPY BIRTHDAY!</p><p><br /></p><p>..and a great write up MM!</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect German notgeld (war emergency money..and related stuff), here&#039;s an interesting piece with a link to the ancient world.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpsfvaoab2f.jpg.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://s1241.photobucket.com/user/chrsmat71/media/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpsfvaoab2f.jpg.html" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://i1241.photobucket.com/albums/gg513/chrsmat71/modern%20coins/s-l1600_zpsfvaoab2f.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The fellow on the obverse is Saint Maurice, who has been&nbsp; depicted as on this coin since the middle ages.&nbsp; He is still on the city Coburg&#039;s coat of arms (except during the Nazi period when this was replaced for reasons you can probably guess).</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coburg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>According to the standard story, he was the leader of a Roman legion consisting largely of Christians.&nbsp; He knocked heads with Maximian by refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods and refused to rough up some fellow Christians.&nbsp; Long story short: whole legion executed, Maurice and several others saints.&nbsp; How much of the story is true is unknown.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Maurice" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Maurice" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Maurice</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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