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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2869507, member: 10461&quot;]Stephen&#039;s coins are almost <i>always</i> ugly, in my limited experience.&nbsp; I had one (Watford type) with a pretty nice portrait on it once upon a time, but I think this reign had to be the low point of English mint quality.&nbsp; Must have had something to do with the turbulence of the times, with the civil war and all that?&nbsp; They&#039;re just all so crude.&nbsp; But oh so scarce and fascinating.&nbsp; Congrats!</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have pictures of my old Stephen penny- that was 24 years ago, before I&#039;d ever heard of the Internet.</p><p><br /></p><p>So here&#039;s a King John I used to have, and the Aethelred II from my present &quot;Eclectic Box&quot; collection.&nbsp; The John now lives with [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER], and the Aethelred II (his former namesake coin) now lives with me.&nbsp; (It&#039;s a long, convoluted story.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]685382[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/England-AR-penny-John-034500-slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FEngland-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-coin-800x500.png&amp;hash=dc8fccef6b4875bb205857e22a1540c4" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fi88.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fk173%2Flordmarcovan%2FEngland-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-slab.jpg&amp;hash=c934ed851db6b6394f323019b6a357ea" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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