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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2819963, member: 10461&quot;]You could shop around some more, but that one really doesn&#039;t seem too bad for sixty bucks, reckon.&nbsp; I might look around a bit for one with a more detailed, better-struck portrait, but those coins are likely to cost you more money.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That coin is fine - and really not bad at all for the general type, as flatly struck portraiture seems to plague the hammered coins of this reign and particularly those of his predecessor, Elizabeth I.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I personally tend to prefer <i>dated </i>coins for my Elizabethan and later hammered silver, but that&#039;s just me.&nbsp; The shillings are nice because they&#039;re relatively large.</p><p><br /></p><p>James I is of course interesting because he is the &quot;King James&quot; of King James Bible fame.&nbsp; He was James VI of Scotland before becoming James I of England, as the title of the Wikipedia article indicates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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