saint gall geocoin | nickel (re) | DISCOUNTED

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geocoins of swiss canton saint gall. shows saint gallus with a bear.

a popular story has it that as st gall was travelling in the woods he was sitting one evening warming his hands at a fire. a bear emerged from the woods and charged. the holy man rebuked the bear, so awed by his presence it stopped its attack and slunk off to the trees. there it gathered firewood before returning to share the heat of the fire with st gall. st gall gave a bread in return to the bear under the condition that the bear would never come back. the bear is now the crest animal of the city of saint gall.