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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2897758, member: 10461&quot;]<b>1789 Great Britain &quot;spade&quot; type half-guinea.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/The%20Holey%20Gold%20Hat/HGH-GrBrit-HalfGuinea-1789.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>From my old &quot;<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/my-holey-coin-vest-and-holey-gold-hat.286762/">Holey Coin Vest</a>&quot; collection (off the &quot;Holey Gold Hat&quot;): </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fac3ae28e2b23b313c9f754e6550ced33%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.cointalk.com%252Fstyles%252Fdefault%252Fxenforo%252Favatars%252Favatar_male_m.png&amp;hash=74139600caf88aa8367ed6b0f46c8d04" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Holed or not, this is probably the nicest coin I&#039;ve ever offered as a giveaway prize.*</p><p><br /></p><p>(*But the pool of contestants were all people on Collectors Universe who had donated to a fund they set up to send me on a metal detecting expedition to England.&nbsp; That fundraising had been unsolicited on my part, so I owed &#039;em a gesture of thanks, in addition to the reports from the <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">trip</a>.&nbsp; As it happened, the biggest donor won this coin in my drawing... and told me to <i>keep it</i>.&nbsp; There are some pretty darned generous folks out there!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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