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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3532792, member: 10461&quot;]If you check out the &quot;<a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI" rel="nofollow">Bygones</a>&quot; gallery, you&#039;ll see Kaiserreich and German States coins, and plenty of French, including some real <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/YCE9eeN1BloeROPL7JV8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/YCE9eeN1BloeROPL7JV8" rel="nofollow">eyecandy</a> pieces I miss owning.</p><p><br /></p><p>Goodness!&nbsp; Have I ended up without any French or German coins in the current lineup?&nbsp; Yikes!&nbsp; Thanks for bringing that to my attention.&nbsp; I shall need to address that.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Edit- no, wait!&nbsp; I still have that nice octagonal French jeton from 1869.)</p><p><br /></p><p>As to Belgian, well, that Austrian Netherlands Insurrection piece I just sold kind of counts, since that was from the precursor state to modern Belgium.&nbsp; Check out the Brabant gold <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/VqZoYtrYxobuIHC13WMi" rel="nofollow">florin</a> in the Bygones gallery, too.&nbsp; And the Liège communion <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/orvzMcgm5009Lrr4esyZ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/orvzMcgm5009Lrr4esyZ" rel="nofollow">token</a> with the skull on it.&nbsp; Yep.&nbsp; I&#039;ll need to cover Belgium again.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/ZqB5wJspQIAY0WJfw0QU" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/SL50Qie7LLIUhnykKUjI/ZqB5wJspQIAY0WJfw0QU" rel="nofollow">another</a> that went away in the March purge.</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem with being a collector of very modest means and occasionally expensive tastes (and never enough savings) is that one often has to fall back on one&#039;s collection as a sort of piggy bank.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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