Many young Americans have discovered in their grandparents attics a halfforgotten box containing strange coins. These coins bear words in a foreign language or perhaps in an alphabet with unfamiliar letters. Perhaps these coins are the only money the childs grandparents or greatgrandparents had with them when. after weeks in cramped shipboard quarters. they arrived on Americas shores. Behind. the new immigrants may have left oppression. war. or famine. Ahead lay liberty. freedom. and a new yet challenging life. The curious and strange looking coins are a tangible reminder of that moment when the childs forebears stood on the threshold between the old life and new world.
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