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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3231764, member: 10461&quot;]Great coin!&nbsp; I too am fascinated by early dated coinage and have owned the Levinson book for a decade, yet still have not yet owned a single Levinson-listed coin!&nbsp; Too bad his book cuts off at 1500, though I can understand why.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have had several early 1500s dated pieces (the earliest from <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hungarian-madonna-child-denars-fun-and-affordable-early-dated-silver-coins.301066/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/hungarian-madonna-child-denars-fun-and-affordable-early-dated-silver-coins.301066/">1505</a>), but haven&#039;t crossed that barrier into the late 1400s-dated ones yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s also great that you have a Levinson pedigree on a coin the author owned himself!</p><p><br /></p><p>I dream of owning a gold coin with a 1400s date on it (I love the ones with those archaic numerals where the 4&#039;s look like little curlicues and the 7&#039;s are inverted V&#039;s).</p><p><br /></p><p>One day (maybe before too long, if I save up) I&#039;ll have something along these lines...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">(The following two are not mine):</font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2854&amp;lot=1630" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2854&amp;lot=1630" rel="nofollow">1495 Frankfurt goldgulden</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/hdrauch/107/image02289.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><font size="3">* I did own a 1400s <a href="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/ErkrzNrtRfOuDiaO7GEr_Neth-Gelderland-StJohn-goldgulden-072222-coin-800x500.png" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/ErkrzNrtRfOuDiaO7GEr_Neth-Gelderland-StJohn-goldgulden-072222-coin-800x500.png" rel="nofollow">goldgulden</a>, but not a dated one.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2849&amp;lot=2289" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=2849&amp;lot=2289" rel="nofollow">1497 Hamburg ducat</a></p><p><br /></p><p>(See?&nbsp; This one&#039;s got both that cool little curlicue 4 <i>and</i> the upside-down-V for a 7!)</p><p><img src="https://www.numisbids.com/sales/hosted/gruen/075/image01630.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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