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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrsmat71, post: 2873298, member: 42634&quot;]Oh wow, those are cool.&nbsp; I had no idea Japan made clay coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>May as well post my newest porcelain notgeld coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]687189[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin commemorates &quot;The Diet of Worms&quot;, which I thought was some type of Atkins or South Beach competitor, or a sequel to this book...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.retroist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/friedworms.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;A <i>diet</i> was larger conference, lead by the Holy Roman Emperor and Worms was the German city it was held in.&nbsp; Martin Luther was called here to recant his heretical writings, and&nbsp; told them to buzz off....after thinking about it for a day.&nbsp; Luther got out of there, and was labeled a heretic.&nbsp;&nbsp; For a while, he hang out near the town of Eisenach where this coin was minted. The reverse shows a Luther Rose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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