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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4554321, member: 102103&quot;]Thanks for the encouragement!&nbsp; I can keep finding new-old stuff for quite a while--</p><p>It will just keep getting lower and lower grade as I run out of better coins.&nbsp; The </p><p>limiting part is finding time to take half-decent photographs and look up the </p><p>attributions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Day 80:&nbsp; Duchy of Lorraine, 30 Deniers, 1728-9 (date worn), Leopold I, 0.166 Billon</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127674[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Lorraine was one of the regions Germany and France kept fighting over in the 1600-</p><p>1900s.&nbsp; The reverse has a Cross of Jerusalem indicating Leopold I&#039;s claim to the </p><p>Crusader-Era Kingdom of Jerusalem, as a descendant of Godfrey of Bouillon.&nbsp; Thus </p><p>he called himself a king even though he only ruled a duchy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse:&nbsp; LEOP. I. D. G. D. LOT. BAR. REX. IER&nbsp; (Leopold I, by the Grace of God, </p><p>Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and King of Jerusalem)</p><p>Reverse:&nbsp; PIECE DE XXX DENIERS</p><p>Legends from <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28839.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces28839.html" rel="nofollow">Numista</a>, as mine are too worn to read easily.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was from an unattributed lot of &quot;old but not ancient&quot; coins I got for $4-5 each.</p><p>Some of them I did pretty well, and some of them even $5 might have been a bit</p><p>much.&nbsp; But I prefer buying coins in person to online, and I&#039;m not likely to see many </p><p>of them again soon, so I am content.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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