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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 759520, member: 5682&quot;]Italian coins can sometimes be very hot.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m always surprised by the hot bidding for some obscure Italian coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=300376136479&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=300376136479&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=300376136479&amp;ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The above is a beautiful coin of Napoleon&#039;s second wife, Marie Louise of Austria, who later ruled Parma after her husband&#039;s exile. (Interestingly, to my ears, the Italian spoken in Parma today has a beautiful French lilt. Although Marie Louise was born in Austria, it seems she brought with her to this small Italian city the French culture.)</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Louise,_Duchess_of_Parma</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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