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<p>[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5156022, member: 109923"]No not really, it doesn't make it rare on its own. The bust direction may be unusual compared to his other issues, but that doesn't mean they didn't strike a load of the left-facing one. A coin with a right-facing bust might be rarer because the issue is rarer. EID MAR has a right-facing bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the auction, Roma said of your coin there was 'only one other example offered at auction in the past 20 years' - that makes it rare! It's a very nice coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, English/British coins only alternated the bust with each ruler after Charles II (whose busts faced in both directions). From William I to Henry VII they were mostly head-on and didn't look like the monarch anyway.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Conduitt, post: 5156022, member: 109923"]No not really, it doesn't make it rare on its own. The bust direction may be unusual compared to his other issues, but that doesn't mean they didn't strike a load of the left-facing one. A coin with a right-facing bust might be rarer because the issue is rarer. EID MAR has a right-facing bust. In the auction, Roma said of your coin there was 'only one other example offered at auction in the past 20 years' - that makes it rare! It's a very nice coin. Incidentally, English/British coins only alternated the bust with each ruler after Charles II (whose busts faced in both directions). From William I to Henry VII they were mostly head-on and didn't look like the monarch anyway.[/QUOTE]
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