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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mackwork, post: 1393882, member: 35676&quot;]I&#039;ve looked at the reverse a few times and can&#039;t see anything that I can be sure says &quot;copy&quot;? If so, maybe a copy minted in gold?</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">In the fourteenth century, a hundred and fifty European states and local coin issuing authorities made their own copies of the florin. The most important of these was the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_forint" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_forint" rel="nofollow">Hungarian forint</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> because the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" rel="nofollow">Kingdom of Hungary</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> was a major source of gold mined in Europe (until the </font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" rel="nofollow">New World</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"> began to contribute to the supply in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, most of the gold used in Europe came from</font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" rel="nofollow">Africa</a><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif">).&quot;</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="sans-serif"></font></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin_(Italian_coin)" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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