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<p>[QUOTE="serafino, post: 3912299, member: 74574"]I love history and my collection is mostly made up of coins that were used by my ancestors in Sicily and Italy. There was extreme poverty in Sicily and each coin represented much work for the holder. There was no paper money used back in the 1600's-1700's so the coins were the primary form of currency. There were also no banks for the common folks and each silver coin was part of their savings if they could manage to put a few away. Sometimes they would hide a few silver coins in the walls of their homes or bury them under the old olive tree.</p><p><br /></p><p> There were gold coins minted but they were out of reach for the majority of people. If they could get their hands on a silver dollar sized scudo/piastra they would have felt fortunate[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="serafino, post: 3912299, member: 74574"]I love history and my collection is mostly made up of coins that were used by my ancestors in Sicily and Italy. There was extreme poverty in Sicily and each coin represented much work for the holder. There was no paper money used back in the 1600's-1700's so the coins were the primary form of currency. There were also no banks for the common folks and each silver coin was part of their savings if they could manage to put a few away. Sometimes they would hide a few silver coins in the walls of their homes or bury them under the old olive tree. There were gold coins minted but they were out of reach for the majority of people. If they could get their hands on a silver dollar sized scudo/piastra they would have felt fortunate[/QUOTE]
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