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<p>[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 73480, member: 708"]Smith's won't have any French stuff, he just does British... emphasis on Early Milled. He had a full sixpence run (which is where i cherrypicked a few of mine from) and tons of halfcrowns. Also some gold guineas, five guineas etc. Hammered is pot luck, but i got my Stephen penny from him.</p><p><br /></p><p>He only keeps the proof and mint sets in stock for the tourists. (Especially the euro sets, which he doesn't like very much, but he says because the tourists want them he'll stock them [mostly German tourists i've noticed] )</p><p><br /></p><p>In the antiques centre the one that'll interest you a little bit more is the one that is called Brigantia. They deal with coins from Ancient Greece and Persia through Celtic, late Anglo-Saxon and upto the end of the hammered series. But they also sell all manner of archaeological artefacts Greek pottery, Roman pottery and statuettes, Egyptian ammulets. I think they were selling medieval keys last time. I however was particularly struck by a crucifix (one of those with Christ on it) i dunno how old it was exactly.</p><p><br /></p><p>They also had some Athenian Owl Tets. (Along with several other Greek coins) and Roman gold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 73480, member: 708"]Smith's won't have any French stuff, he just does British... emphasis on Early Milled. He had a full sixpence run (which is where i cherrypicked a few of mine from) and tons of halfcrowns. Also some gold guineas, five guineas etc. Hammered is pot luck, but i got my Stephen penny from him. He only keeps the proof and mint sets in stock for the tourists. (Especially the euro sets, which he doesn't like very much, but he says because the tourists want them he'll stock them [mostly German tourists i've noticed] ) In the antiques centre the one that'll interest you a little bit more is the one that is called Brigantia. They deal with coins from Ancient Greece and Persia through Celtic, late Anglo-Saxon and upto the end of the hammered series. But they also sell all manner of archaeological artefacts Greek pottery, Roman pottery and statuettes, Egyptian ammulets. I think they were selling medieval keys last time. I however was particularly struck by a crucifix (one of those with Christ on it) i dunno how old it was exactly. They also had some Athenian Owl Tets. (Along with several other Greek coins) and Roman gold.[/QUOTE]
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