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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3400569, member: 10461&quot;]I briefly owned this July 1690 halfcrown last year.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35075128" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/35075128" rel="nofollow">PCGS graded it AU53</a>.&nbsp; (Pop. 1/0, so presently the &quot;finest known&quot; merely by virtue of being the only one they&#039;ve graded so far).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]903003[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/scWSItSzR56Z2JW6lkqA_irish_1690.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While metal <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/highlights-of-my-2013-metal-detecting-week-in-england.287138/">detecting</a> a field in Essex, UK in 2013, I took a lunch break.&nbsp; As one of my dig partners and I were eating our sandwiches back at the van, he showed me the contents of his find pouch.&nbsp; He&#039;d dug an impressive handful of what the local detectorists refer to as &quot;greenies&quot; -&nbsp; i.e., old coppers.</p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed one of them was a James II gunmoney piece, which I thought was pretty neat.&nbsp; So apparently they circulated in England as well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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