A penny-smashing first...for me, anyway

[scarlettina]

skidspoppe is living in Hungary these days, teaching and enjoying living in Europe. One of the ways he's enjoying his time there is by smashing coinage. This weekend in the mail, I received a smashed forint from St. Stephen Bassilica in Budapest. And what is shown on this Hungarian elongated coin? A relic: a severed hand. This is a first for me: a disembodied limb on a smashed coin. It's unsettling, but the forint makes an awfully nice elongated coin, doesn't it? Lookit that pretty golden color!



At some point, I should post about some of the ECs jackwilliambell brought me back from Australia. Some of them are really cool and interesting.