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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4627719, member: 110504&quot;]I don&#039;t usually say this, but, LOL!!!</p><p>Sadly, the name has nothing to do with Oregon.&nbsp; It comes directly from the avatar, about which I should have made a separate post.&nbsp; ...For instance, had I known what I was doing in the first place.&nbsp; The coin is a denier of Hugues /Hugh IV, duke of Burgundy 1218-1272 (funly contemporaneous to Henry III of England).&nbsp; It&#039;s a late issue, with the coin legends fully &#039;catching up,&#039; in the operant medium, with Gothic letter forms.&nbsp; (With die engraving, especially in this period, there was a Lot of time lag.)</p><p>The legend goes: &quot;+VGO BVRGVNDIE,&quot; with &quot;DVX,&quot; horizontally, in the field.&nbsp; &quot;VGO [...] DVX.&quot;&nbsp; Anglicized, dumbly (especially since, where pronunciation of Medieval Latin is concerned, it&#039;s probably off), as, ...drum-roll, please... &quot;+VGO.DVCKS.&quot;</p><p>Sadly, I don&#039;t have a picture of the reverse, although I&#039;ve got both sides of an example that&#039;s no better than this, from the scarcer mint of Auxonne.&nbsp; (This one is from Dijon --thank you, in France, they do mustard, along with wine and cheese.&nbsp; All highly recommended!)</p><p>Anyway, Seriously, Thanks for asking.&nbsp; How many other people have been scratching their heads?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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