I thought that was what you meant but took the soft option :-) Bear in mind that Henry (Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon) died before his...
From memory, David I invaded England during the English civil war at that time. Stephen signed a treaty (1139) which ceded Northumbria to the...
Nice choices. I doubt if i'll ever have a 40 lire of parma, but I do have the silver 5 lire crown from there. It's a nice portrait of Marie...
To quote Seaby " David I appears to have been the first independent Scottish king to issue coins, an event no doubt allied to the capture of...
It's the portraiture that does it for me too. As far as collecting by `type' goes, i've been keen to get a coin with the portrait of every french...
To be honest, I can't remember what I paid for that one and it was about four or five years ago. I can remember thinking at the time that I got a...
As mentioned in the thread on Doug's 1650 1/2 ecu, I had a memory of having a french coin with a blundered legend. I rummaged through my french...
I have great difficulty getting into Brit mediaeval silver for the exact reasons you mention. As Andy started this thread in relation to `gold'...
Right now i'm being pulled in a number of directions interest wise. My problem is that I find it incredibly difficult to let go of the ones I...
Hey Michael, it seems like I have some support for my appreciation of Aunty Vicky when she was but a lass. ;-) I have a limited `appreciation'...
There may be, but not `one' specific site covering everything `foreign' (bear in mind that to a very large portion of the world, the US is...
The teardrop is the one alright. The `squiggle' as I put it. You might be right, but i'm not sure about it being a local engraver though. Jean...
I was wondering where the Engraver General's privy mark was on that coin!! I have just been looking at some sites in french to gain an...
The coin is an Austrian 2 Heller. There were 78,036,000 made that particular year, and my catalogue has it valued at 15 cents in fine condition....
You maybe have heard of the Thessalian League? It comprised of a group of city states in the thessalian valley in Northern Greece which combined...
Ah .....and there in lies the conflicting data. I have their first edition 1601 - 1700 and they have the Mint Director's privy mark (Malbay's)...
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