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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4741040, member: 10461"]You did well. I bought one of those in the late 1990s myself. I knew I was buying a restrike, but it was pretty. Very prooflike, and very large diameter for its bullion content (they're rather thin, as you know).</p><p><br /></p><p>The 4-ducats are good jewelry pieces because they have that big-gold "bling" factor without messing up a historical piece if you do mount it in a pendant or something. They're not old, but they <i>are</i> official Austrian government-issued coins, struck to the same standards as the earlier historical pieces. And they're nice. And you bought in at a very opportune time, so you're "golden" on that investment, if you'll pardon the pun.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wish I had kept mine. I sold it before bullion prices rose.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4741040, member: 10461"]You did well. I bought one of those in the late 1990s myself. I knew I was buying a restrike, but it was pretty. Very prooflike, and very large diameter for its bullion content (they're rather thin, as you know). The 4-ducats are good jewelry pieces because they have that big-gold "bling" factor without messing up a historical piece if you do mount it in a pendant or something. They're not old, but they [I]are[/I] official Austrian government-issued coins, struck to the same standards as the earlier historical pieces. And they're nice. And you bought in at a very opportune time, so you're "golden" on that investment, if you'll pardon the pun. I wish I had kept mine. I sold it before bullion prices rose.[/QUOTE]
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