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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8209863, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you! Anyone who reads the Ancient Coins forum knows that I&#039;ve largely focused on building a collection of ancient coins for the last four or five years. Trying to reconstitute the portion of my old collection of British historical medals that I sold, particularly coronation and jubilee medals, has been kind of a side project. I&#039;m still missing James I, Charles I, James II, his wife Mary of Modena, and George III&#039;s wife Queen Charlotte, plus the ones I now have only in bronze I used to have in silver, with one (the small Queen Victoria diamond jubilee medal) in gold. I also had a large collection of Mudie Napoleonic Wars medals, and a lot of the large &quot;City of London&quot; medals. To the extent I&#039;ve been successful in rebuilding this part of my old collection, I&#039;m lucky that prices are still relatively low when compared to the prices of British coins of the same monarchs. The reason I turned to collecting ancient coins in the first place was that I knew I&#039;d never be able to recreate anything like my old collection of English gold coins back to James I, and silver crowns back to Charles II -- most of which now go for thousands of dollars each, instead of the hundreds of dollars they cost me back in the 1980s and early 1990s. There isn&#039;t 1/10th of the interest in British historical medals that there is in British coins, despite the fact that mintages of the official coronation medals, up through Victoria&#039;s coronation, were a tiny fraction of the coin mintages.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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