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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3441656, member: 10461&quot;]Nice!&nbsp; I love these.&nbsp; There&#039;s just not too much affordable medieval hammered gold out there.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So what if they&#039;re small.&nbsp; These are extremely historical and interesting.&nbsp; I like the cross-cultural aspect of them, since they combine Islamic (Kufic) script with Christian iconography, which is interesting given the background of the Crusades that were going on at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I got mine last summer.&nbsp; I liked it for the contrasting earthen patina.&nbsp; There&#039;s still a little bit of Sicilian <i>dirt </i>on there!&nbsp; I left it there, too.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had been having some bad luck with &quot;details&quot; grades when I submitted other hammered gold last year, so I was happy to break the jinx when this one came back straight-graded as PCGS VF35.</p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><a href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/X573wTgfXSYzUyBRF230" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://collectivecoin.com/lordmarcovan/7my2PhjhXCrR9PLbqB5k/X573wTgfXSYzUyBRF230" rel="nofollow">Sicily (Norman Kings): gold tari of Guglielmo I (&quot;William the Bad&quot;), ca. 1154-1166 AD</a></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/BdZ5v7F9QW26A0nYZ6ZZ_Guglielmo%20I.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/36461152" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/cert/36461152" rel="nofollow">PCGS VF35</a>; population 1 with none higher- the only example graded by PCGS as of 3/27/2019.</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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