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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Parthicus, post: 8664775, member: 81887&quot;]Oh wow, can I search your dealer&#039;s stock sometime?&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Lots of neat coins here.&nbsp; My comments:</p><p><br /></p><p>-I like the depiction of the Madonna and Child on the Hungarian piece.</p><p>-The Italian coin is scarce and interesting.&nbsp; It was struck in Tuscany, at the mint of Firenze (Florence) in 1860, the year before Italian unification.&nbsp; This is a transitional piece, with a denomination of &quot;One Italian Lira&quot; (rather than just one (local) lira) and Victor Emannuel has the title of &quot;king-elect.&quot;&nbsp; The Kingdom of Italy was proclaimed in March of 1861, under King Victor Emannuel II.&nbsp; (He retained the numbering from his ancestral title as King of Sardinia.)</p><p>-The Puerto Rico 1896, two years before the US captured it in the Spanish-American War, is cool and scarce (Spain never struck much coinage for Puerto Rico).</p><p>-Yes, the medal commemorates the Battle of Verdun.&nbsp; The obverse has (in French) a popular slogan of the battle, &quot;they shall not pass.&quot; (Which you may recognize was later reused by Tolkien in the scene with the Balrog)</p><p>-Chinese Republic coins are fun, I usually pick up any I see in a junk box.&nbsp; But the usual design, showing the multi-colored stripes of the flag on a single-colored coin, seems like a design fail to me.</p><p>-I don&#039;t think the top &quot;Indian&quot; coin is from India.&nbsp; The date of 1383 on the reverse is 1963/4 AD, and Indian state coinage ended before then.&nbsp; Bottom coin does look Indian and maybe identifiable with work.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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