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<p>[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 4536121, member: 74712"]I paid far too much for it considering the condition it’s in. Sadly Eleanor’s don’t come up too often, and I jumped the gun. </p><p><br /></p><p>what I find interesting is that in the pictures of all these Aquitainian/Poitou coins, there seems to be a grainy quality to the metal. I wonder what causes that? Is it the soil where they were found, or the quality of the Billon? While the Henry II is clearly grainy to the eye in hand, I hadn’t noticed it in my other coins, and so assumed it was my poor photography. But seeing others (and taking a cursory glance through my other French deniers which are likewise grainy) is making me second guess that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="FitzNigel, post: 4536121, member: 74712"]I paid far too much for it considering the condition it’s in. Sadly Eleanor’s don’t come up too often, and I jumped the gun. what I find interesting is that in the pictures of all these Aquitainian/Poitou coins, there seems to be a grainy quality to the metal. I wonder what causes that? Is it the soil where they were found, or the quality of the Billon? While the Henry II is clearly grainy to the eye in hand, I hadn’t noticed it in my other coins, and so assumed it was my poor photography. But seeing others (and taking a cursory glance through my other French deniers which are likewise grainy) is making me second guess that.[/QUOTE]
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