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<p>[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 93869, member: 51"]Purchased in the early 60's from Marshall Fields, original Fields price tag still on the back, $31.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were at my parent's house, we're going through some items and I would not have given them a 2nd look, but got a tiny bit curious why they would have been $31 in the early 60's, a bit more expensive that I would have thought. So took a look at the coins, which I assume are copies of Roman coins. The only thing odd is that each coin has a wooden border, and on the base of the wooden border, only visible if you turn the small shadow box on its side, are some numbers written, not consecutive. Would these have been taken from some kind of game or set for presentation? Thanks for taking a look.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]23785[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23786[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23787[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Lucille.b, post: 93869, member: 51"]Purchased in the early 60's from Marshall Fields, original Fields price tag still on the back, $31. These were at my parent's house, we're going through some items and I would not have given them a 2nd look, but got a tiny bit curious why they would have been $31 in the early 60's, a bit more expensive that I would have thought. So took a look at the coins, which I assume are copies of Roman coins. The only thing odd is that each coin has a wooden border, and on the base of the wooden border, only visible if you turn the small shadow box on its side, are some numbers written, not consecutive. Would these have been taken from some kind of game or set for presentation? Thanks for taking a look. [ATTACH=full]23785[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23786[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23787[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]23789[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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