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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sylvester, post: 1253142, member: 708&quot;]Ah hammered coins, if that gets in your blood you&#039;re a gonner, an hammered addict. Milled coins never quite feel the same again afterwards, they seem blander.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve long toyed with the idea of putting together an Edward I penny set, all classes/mints... but of course I&#039;ve never got around to it, as usual.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are many ways of going with hammered, pick a monarch, pick a denomination, pick a dynasty (Tudor/Stuart), even the classic approach of one coin from each monarch, which can take you right back to the 800s if desired, through to 1662.</p><p><br /></p><p>I must say although I do like Tudor coins, particularly later &#039;fine&#039; silver issues of Edward through to Elizabeth I, my strongest pull is towards the medieval material. But as a former medieval history student, I have my bias! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Oh and hammered gold just floors me. Here&#039;s my most recent acquisition, an Henry VIII posthumous issue half sovereign, my first ever Tudor gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]134999.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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