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Message:: [QUOTE="sonlarson, post: 1540349, member: 15488"]Yesterday I showed an 1918 50 Centime from France in a "post your latest Foreign coin" post.The coin showed the famous sower image. I provided a tidbit of history which occurred on 9/26/1918 to add some interest. I collect world coins and I enjoy studying the history of the coins and the countries they come from. That got me thinking about a topic which might be fun and educational. Each day post a coin from any country and try and find some interesting bit of history from that country during the year the coin was minted.The only rule is that it be a regular circulation coin, preferably circulated. I'll start with a coin from Austria. a 1957 Schilling which also shows a sower, only this time a male. On 05/05/1957 Austria held their Presidential elections.Adolf Scharf, representing the Social Democratic Party, defeated Wolfgang Denk, representing the Austrian People's Party-Freedom Party of Austria, by a margin of 51.1% to 48.9%. Voter turnout was 97.2%! Perhaps this might be an omen that our own Social Democratic Party might win by a small margin. We can only hope for a 97.2% turnout. So find a coin, Google, and share some World History. [ATTACH]205445.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]