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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cplradar, post: 6637184, member: 108985&quot;]A few years ago, when I was studying overseas, I went on a walk in Amsterdam from our hotel near the Rijks Museum to the Albert Culp market.&nbsp; Along the way we passed this old timers store that sold artistic post card, stamps and coins.&nbsp; One of the coins in the window was this clad Manhattan 5 Euro commeriative which was white blast silver on the front of the card (the coin was packages in a card) but the reverse was toned badly.&nbsp; I picked it up anyway.&nbsp; The fellow who owned the shop and his wife were both in there early eighties and Jewish, and they had a few stories to tell, including there expereinces with the Nazi round ups and how they escaped while the rest of the family was exterminated.&nbsp; But he enjoyed his life in Amsterdam, despite being increasingly surrounded by Muslim Arabs in that particular section of town.&nbsp; This is the coin</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x990-toned_manhattan_clad.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x990-toned_manhattan_clad.png" rel="nofollow">http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x990-toned_manhattan_clad.png</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x990-toned_manhattan_clad.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><a href="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x935-toned_manhattan_clad_r_1600.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x935-toned_manhattan_clad_r_1600.png" rel="nofollow">http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x935-toned_manhattan_clad_r_1600.png</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://images.mrbrklyn.com/coins/.cache/1024x935-toned_manhattan_clad_r_1600.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>It is hardly a perfect coin, but it reminds me how toning turns out over time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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