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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;HandsomeToad, post: 657250, member: 12965&quot;]Howdy peeps, <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I try to pick up a few 17th Century English Trade Tokens each month, to keep that part of my collection growing, and I finally bit the big one and picked up a gorgeous 1668 Joseph Phillipps Half Peny (seller&#039;s pics):</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/4061/stratfordobv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1882/stratfordrev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>O: IOSEPH . PHILLIPPS . AT . YE - A FALCON</p><p>R: IN. STRATFORD . VPPON . AVON - HIS HALF PENY . 1668</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This variety has I . A . P under the falcons feet on the obverse, which are the initials of the issuer (Joseph A. Phillipps). <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As I am trying to do with all aspects of my collection, I&#039;m upgrading many of my lower grade coins when I can but I never expected to have such a gorgeous example as the one above. It makes me drool! :goofer: The seller&#039;s pics were good enough to use so I could go ahead and share this with you now instead of having to wait several weeks until it arrives. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ribbit <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ps: I&#039;ve found out this is a reproduction from the 60&#039;s or early 70&#039;s. :goofer:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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