How in the world could we have delivered it? Burma Road? Over the Himalayas?
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The original post is a fascinating topic in numismatics.
At that time some countries still relied on gold coins. The United States did strike gold coins for Saudi Arabia in 1945 and 1947 but they did not have any Arabic inscriptions on them.
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How in the world could we have delivered it? Burma Road? Over the Himalayas?
USPS, of course. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays nor world war these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Interesting. I would assume these proposed coins would have resembled something like the US-Saudi gold sovereign on one side, and something like the obverse of the Junk Dollar on the other.
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How in the world could we have delivered it? Burma Road? Over the Himalayas?
The original post is a fascinating topic in numismatics.
At that time some countries still relied on gold coins. The United States did strike gold coins for Saudi Arabia in 1945 and 1947 but they did not have any Arabic inscriptions on them.
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USPS, of course. "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays nor world war these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds."
Interesting. I would assume these proposed coins would have resembled something like the US-Saudi gold sovereign on one side, and something like the obverse of the Junk Dollar on the other.
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, "Meditations"
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