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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;PaddyB, post: 2475065, member: 40017&quot;]I have had another extraordinary day of lucky pickups - both in exonumia and in coins. It may take me a while to post them all! This is the first:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]521428[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Great big copper medallion - the scale at the bottomis in tenths of an inch. Apologies for some blurriness in the image - the detail is in very high relief so that the medal does not lie flat on the scanner bed.</p><p><br /></p><p>Marie was the second wife of Ernest I Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and so step mother to Prince Albert - husband of Queen Victoria. Much more detail here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_of_W%C3%BCrttemberg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchess_Marie_of_Württemberg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The date on the plinth is 1837 (5 years after her marriage and before Albert married Victoria.) I have not yet worked out what the reference to the Statue of Jeanne D&#039;arc is all about.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope you like.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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