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I ordered a couple of pounds of foreign coins as a gift for my nephew A's kids for Christmas. I also gave them money, but the two kids are getting to the age where I feel like I can provide a quirky influence on them, so, yeah, big batch of coins. I told them that I needed them to find out where they were all from. :)

Before I gave them to the kids, I went thru a bunch of them. It was a really impressive collection -- an old 1905 English penny that was clearly someone's "lucky penny" because it had been worn down almost flat, a coin from Vichy France, coins from Jamaica, pre-revolution Cuba, assorted other European coins, etc. And a coin from Nazi Germany.

I kind of expected it to burn my hand, like something out of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Date: 2012-01-12 07:27 am (UTC)
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I was just the other day stumbling across this page, which is about high fashion in the 20s through 40s, which has a section on WINDOWS SHOPPING IN NAZI GERMANY. With lots of storefront display photos. I'm not even making that up. (Pick Museum, then Everyday Life in the Third Reich.) It was totally a River Song Explores Berlin moment.

Date: 2012-01-12 12:08 pm (UTC)
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Wow. Not to mention those stylin Hugo Boss uniforms.

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