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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5623092, member: 110504"][USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER], that's an Absolutely Stunning, Superb halfcrown. For early Stuart, the legends by themselves are benignly crazy-making. ...Toning, and so forth ...reverential silence ensues.</p><p>Your reference to Hibbert's book is ringing Loud bells --don't have a copy, which surely means I never did (or it would still be here --had to check the shelves). Just lately, I've been looking at a halfcrown online, not remotely as good as yours, but correspondingly accessible. Not sure; might spring for it.</p><p>...And then there's the subcollection of halfgroats and pennies, Elizabeth to Charles II, that I put together, vaguely a decade ago, largely because they're just that fun, not least for the scale. ...With no pics. First time I even mentioned them, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] conveyed the wistful wish that I'd find the .jpgs. Now I'm wondering whether that was too long ago for me to have ever photographed them, or even to save the dealers' pics. ...If I ever summon the nerve to dredge up my antiquated, bottom-shelf digital camera --for which, I Promise you, my aptitude is distinctly south of marginal-- they'll be at the top of the list.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5623092, member: 110504"][USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER], that's an Absolutely Stunning, Superb halfcrown. For early Stuart, the legends by themselves are benignly crazy-making. ...Toning, and so forth ...reverential silence ensues. Your reference to Hibbert's book is ringing Loud bells --don't have a copy, which surely means I never did (or it would still be here --had to check the shelves). Just lately, I've been looking at a halfcrown online, not remotely as good as yours, but correspondingly accessible. Not sure; might spring for it. ...And then there's the subcollection of halfgroats and pennies, Elizabeth to Charles II, that I put together, vaguely a decade ago, largely because they're just that fun, not least for the scale. ...With no pics. First time I even mentioned them, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] conveyed the wistful wish that I'd find the .jpgs. Now I'm wondering whether that was too long ago for me to have ever photographed them, or even to save the dealers' pics. ...If I ever summon the nerve to dredge up my antiquated, bottom-shelf digital camera --for which, I Promise you, my aptitude is distinctly south of marginal-- they'll be at the top of the list.[/QUOTE]
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