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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2232923, member: 12789&quot;]Yes, I purchased it at auction back in 2009.&nbsp; It is ex-Tallent collection and has a bit of a pedigree.</p><p><br /></p><p>Up until probably 15 years ago I did collect English hammered, I still have some of the hoard coins and accumulations for study purposes.&nbsp; But as I started venturing into Scottish, and needing funds I sold off significant parts of the collection but kept some of the early transitional coins, and many of the EI pennies because of the sheer variety and some fit in with the Scottish since they were minted in Berwick.</p><p><br /></p><p>As you note the gold coins of EI-EIII are difficult, the reason it took so long for me to find one I liked - ie full flan with full legends.&nbsp; Most were exported to the continent and clipped down.&nbsp; The Noble was an extreme sum of cash back then, only the 1% would have ever even heard of such a thing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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