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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3705404, member: 10461&quot;]Easy!&nbsp; Just go for one of the British India Vickies!</p><p><br /></p><p>They have a similar young portrait, which stayed frozen in time on Indian coins.&nbsp; Victoria had long since become a veiled old widow on the homeland coinage by the time this coin was struck in 1901, her final year.&nbsp; But she remained &quot;forever young&quot; in India.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is PCGS AU58, already slabbed and TrueViewed.&nbsp; For $53.95 with free shipping.&nbsp; Now <i>that&#039;s</i> a price I can live with, to satisfy that &quot;Young-Head Vickie&quot; craving on a budget!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is essentially the popular &quot;Gothic&quot;-style portrait (different lettering, though), at a fraction of the price of a homeland Gothic florin,&nbsp; never mind the unobtainable (to me) <a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/great-britain-victoria-gothic-crown-1847-/a/3021-21032.s" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/great-britain/great-britain-victoria-gothic-crown-1847-/a/3021-21032.s" rel="nofollow">Gothic crowns</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is a small coin, but I don&#039;t mind that.&nbsp; The nice peripheral toning was a selling point.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>India (British): silver 2-annas of Queen Victoria, 1901(c), Calcutta mint</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]993378[/ATTACH]</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35618647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35618647" rel="nofollow">PCGS AU58</a>; population 2 with 4 higher as of 9/10/2019.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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