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<p>[QUOTE="alde, post: 2924117, member: 6043"]Am I the only one who reads a history book then wants to collect coins associated with the period and history in the book? I think we all as coin collector's want a bit of a connection to the past for whatever reason. My main focus is Roman Imperial but I just The Plantagenets by Dan Jones (great book by the way) and have been buying hammered English pennies of the period and of course references to learn about them. Then of course I needed a Norman coin then some Saxon coins and now I am building a decent little collection of English hammered coins. They are really interesting and challenging to accurately identify. I will start posting some of them soon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple that I have photographed just for the sake of having picures. Please post pictures of coins from and area of history outside your normal collection area.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a penny of John a Plantagenet and and Cnut from the Saxon period.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]708608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]708609[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="alde, post: 2924117, member: 6043"]Am I the only one who reads a history book then wants to collect coins associated with the period and history in the book? I think we all as coin collector's want a bit of a connection to the past for whatever reason. My main focus is Roman Imperial but I just The Plantagenets by Dan Jones (great book by the way) and have been buying hammered English pennies of the period and of course references to learn about them. Then of course I needed a Norman coin then some Saxon coins and now I am building a decent little collection of English hammered coins. They are really interesting and challenging to accurately identify. I will start posting some of them soon. Here are a couple that I have photographed just for the sake of having picures. Please post pictures of coins from and area of history outside your normal collection area. Here is a penny of John a Plantagenet and and Cnut from the Saxon period. [ATTACH=full]708608[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]708609[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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