Just out of curiosity, many of the 5s. pieces I have come across are very worn down, did they circulate any? The coin my father got as a Christmas...
So is the coin in the OP post fake?
Much obliged. I'll pick it up due to the historical and sentimental value.
Hi, I found this 1935 English 5s. coin at my local coin shop. My father gave me a similar one he got for Christmas in 35 as a child that I still...
Is that a Turk standing next to two Normans? I had no idea that the Byzantines used Turks for mercenaries.
The Caracalla is very nice.
Interesting, thanks.
Weren't the Normans the main villains in Robin Hood? I can't remember, its been decades since I've read that story.
Get a Norman coin from Richard I or the other Norman Dukes. If his ancestors came over with the Conqueror then they certainly lived under the Dukes.
Well, due to the fact that the OP and your husband are descended from the Northmen, here is a coin from king of Norman descent. [ATTACH]...
More Normans?
Furthest I traced my family was on my father's side to a man named Osbert from Northumbria. He died shortly after the Norman invasion, perhaps...
A poor cast fake, I can see the casting bubbles on the reverse.
A nice little lot.
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