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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2988205, member: 10461&quot;]January was an active month for me, since I had a little bit of &quot;mad money&quot; from the sale of my love token collection.&nbsp; I added five to the <a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k" rel="nofollow">Eclectic Box</a> collection and there are perhaps one or two more in the pipeline for February, but then I&#039;ll go back to being my usual impoverished peasant self.</p><p><br /></p><p>Posting this group might be stealing a bit of thunder from my upcoming Eclectic Box update, but that might be delayed until I finish working on the long-overdue individual writeup threads for all of my now 32 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>It has been less than a year since I was keeping to a &quot;Box of 20&quot;.&nbsp; Now that I no longer have that self-imposed limit of 20 coins, the collection is growing <i>coin</i>siderably!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the five I added in January.&nbsp; February&#039;s newps are likely to include at least one United States coin (there&#039;s a lovely classic US 20th century type coin in my crosshairs right now, but as of this post I&#039;m a few hours away from knowing whether that&#039;s a done deal or not).</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Greece (Thessaly, Pharkadon): silver hemidrachm; Thessalos restraining bull, ca. 440-400 BC</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/Kp05QttjTZmIV3ZX1nCo_Thessaly%2C%20Pharkadon-hemidrachm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Greece (Mysia, Lampsakos): silver diobol; janiform heads and Athena, ca. 4th-3rd century BC</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/qf8oewvZTEW4ILMGtY4M_twoface.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>England: silver penny of King John, ca. 1213-1215, from the Gisors hoard found in Normandy</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/npMsmrduQGGLbEkllegO_lionking.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>India (Mysore): gold fanam of Tipu Sultan, AH 1200 (1786), Patan mint</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/ai6CapO9SciiafIL2klX_TipuSultanFanam.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>France: silver jeton (insurance token) engraved by Ernest-Paulin Tasset, 1869</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/YwrtJqv9QGi3WFee2lkU_CompagnieLaPrevoyanceJeton.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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