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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JLASS, post: 7940401, member: 122189&quot;]Nice posts all around! I can think of plenty of coins that fit in this category, but perhaps the most moving/haunting to me are the Belgian, German, Dutch, French, Austrian/Hungarian and Ottoman 20 francs/marks/ lira coins that are dated as of 1913-14. Being &quot;modern&quot; (relatively) gold, they are mostly in good condition, and so you see the smiling, shining, somewhat arrogant portraits of various monarchs, kaisers, republican symbols etc. almost as they were then as a strange time capsule of a time right before the world (Western, at least) changed forever. I know the fates of the various empires and regimes after the end of the next 4 years, but have no idea how many of the people who held those coins once didn&#039;t make it back from either side of the trenches or otherwise had their lives changed forever. That war and its effects also drastically changed coinage, including the fact that most of the pre-war varieties discussed above didn&#039;t survive (as a type of coinage, that is - there are millions upon millions of the existing pre-war coins). If folks want photos, happy to provide, though they won&#039;t be of great quality as the coins are in quadrum capsules.</p><p><br /></p><p>The U.S. wartime coins I have generally don&#039;t have the same feel to me personally, since my limited understanding is that U.S. coinage didn&#039;t circulate heavily with troops overseas (what with foreign currencies, military scrip/ MPCs and the like). Then again, I also don&#039;t have any continental coins or U.S. coins from, say, 1812-14, when things were closer to home, and the few U.S. coins I have from the years of the &quot;War Between the States&quot; are just cents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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