By: Joe Brown

Joe Brown — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 10:03:10 +0000

People out there with Hi – IQ and no common scents. First thing that came to my mind, I was maybe 9 or 10 during a stick ball game in the school yard. These two younger kids were shouting at each other at the top of their lungs driving us mad. They were fighting over marbles. One kid, all his pockets even back ones were full with marbles. The other kid had none. The kid with marbles would not even give him 1. I did not want to here no more. So I yelled some choice words, my voice ekoo oh so loud off all the granite and brick walls. They shout up right then. Kid with marbles face drops and looks at me. Other kid still pissed off, scored the point after with his Converse canvas All Star, you know where. Marbles flew every where, kid drops he could not shed a tear, it hurt so bad. I walk over drop my bat next to him. I was making sure he could breath, other kid still standing there with sh t eating grin. Marble kid rolls over there were at least 3 or 4 crushed marbles innbedid into his flaby sweaty belly. I would think he was that fast. He grabs my bat and a good marble it was one off the bigger marbles. Other kid he like a deer in head lights. Marble kid only 4 maybe 5 feet away, from other kid. I must have been in shock, he like frozen & it was really hot that morning. Marble kid winds up whips big marble right between his eyes. Crazy noise when marble hit, kid you not it shadderd. Kids eyes cross and slowly drops. Marble kid lets out big whale sound, going in for the kill. Like I said he was fast for a chunky kid. Grab my bat just in nick of time. Every time I see this seen on TV I crack up. He went to town on the kid like Rallfee that movie X mass story. I peeled him of. told them to get out of here you go that way, other kid pick him self up. He has 2 small chunks of marble in forehead. I kind of bink one off other one was in there. He flew home. My buddy & I had batting practice very good hand eye quordnation smashing marble with a stick ball bat. Those coins were flat rounded marbles, how stupid is that a glass coin. I swear lot of these Hi -IQ people are from some place else. Their people must have pushed them out of there space craft and they fell on their head. Did they at least put some type of rim around flying sawsir and give that a try. A rock would have been a lot better. Never should have made it to the drawing board. Some 1 was missing some marbles back then. Dumb waste of tax money. Peace.

By: Munzen

Munzen — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:59:04 +0000

Richard: Those are interesting pieces! My wife has a few porcelain “coins” from Weimar Germany as well. They were called “Notgeld”, or “emergency money” (the word “Not” in German having a very different meaning from its English cognate, of course). The particular pieces in her set were made in the city of Meißen, about 30 km northwest of Dresden. Meißen’s been famous for centuries as a center for fine porcelain work, so it wasn’t a big leap for them to experiment with coinage substitutes.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 22:28:06 +0000

Very interesting. I have a porcelain sort of coin a city in Germany made at the start of the 1923 inflationary period, and Japan had some clay coins minted at the end of World War 2, but obvious these didn’t work very well.

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