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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 2899129, member: 10461"]Thanks! That shilling has an interesting story. In 1992 or 1993, I was avidly collecting British coins and a very generous dealer in Hendersonville, North Carolina, just up and gave me that coin, as a GIFT, on what was only my second or third visit to his shop!  And it's not like I was a big customer, either.  I was really poor back then. In fact, in 1994 I hit de facto bankruptcy, my house was foreclosed on, my marriage hit the rocks, and I had to sell my coin collection and most of my remaining possessions, and move back in with my father for a while. I sold some of my better British coins, including this one, to my friend Michael ( [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] ).  Michael sold the off-center shilling, and out it went into the world, never to be seen again... Until the fall of 2016, when I stumbled across it, now slabbed, on the Atlas Numismatics site. I bought it in 2016 for about 5 times what I'd sold it for in 1994, but it's mine again.  There is no mistaking a unique coin like this.  It's obviously the same coin I sold during those hard times.[/QUOTE]