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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2461071, member: 19463&quot;]Forty years ago tonight I had the privilege of photographing the Washington DC Bicentennial fireworks show from the top of the Washington Monument.&nbsp; There is nothing quite like watching such a show from above (except, of course, being in the wrong place at the wrong time which describes war zones).&nbsp; The experience ruined my possible enjoyment of future displays however magnificent they were.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Fireworks and gunpowder needed for what we now use for such purposes were invented in China in a time when coins were cash with legends/characters but no images.&nbsp; I would love to see what they might have put on coins if they had used the same ideas of using pictures on coins as done in the West.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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