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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TTerrier, post: 7571461, member: 76835&quot;]I haven&#039;t contributed anything to this thread in a while but here is a short-cross penny of King John.</p><p><br /></p><p>27mm, 1.42gm, Class VIa2, London mint, moneyer Walter, North 974/2</p><p><br /></p><p>John was the youngest son of Henry II and is most known today as the villain (along with the Sherriff of Nottingham) of the Robin Hood tales.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was actually the signer of the Magna Carta in 1215 (although he died a year later), tried to steal the kingship from his elder brother Richard Lionheart while he was away at the Crusades and reportedly started the formal &quot;Maundy money&quot; tradition of the sovereigns - the giving of alms to the poor whether it be in kind or in cash on the Thursday before Good Friday.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am now on the lookout for a decent Richard and Henry II but the quality of these is generally poor.&nbsp; While Richard&#039;s name does not appear on British pennies (as is the case for John) I really want to get a British coin and not a French one (where his name does appear). </p><p><br /></p><p>Going back even further most of Stephen&#039;s coins are almost unrecognizable.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1305465[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1305466[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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