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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3551930, member: 10461"]Not my coin. Not <i>yet</i>, anyway. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I'm bidding, but on a wild guess, I'd lay my odds of winning at 50% or less.</p><p><br /></p><p>Never had a Scottish coin in 43 years of collecting, and me of Scots-Irish descent. Independent <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_coinage" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_coinage" rel="nofollow">Scottish coinage</a> pretty much faded out after the 1707 union with England.</p><p><br /></p><p>What more iconic symbol than the Scottish thistle, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]943912[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I" rel="nofollow">James VI of Scotland</a> was James I of England (of "<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" rel="nofollow">King James Bible</a>" fame).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3551930, member: 10461"]Not my coin. Not [I]yet[/I], anyway. ;) I'm bidding, but on a wild guess, I'd lay my odds of winning at 50% or less. Never had a Scottish coin in 43 years of collecting, and me of Scots-Irish descent. Independent [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_coinage']Scottish coinage[/URL] pretty much faded out after the 1707 union with England. What more iconic symbol than the Scottish thistle, right? [ATTACH=full]943912[/ATTACH] [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I']James VI of Scotland[/URL] was James I of England (of "[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version']King James Bible[/URL]" fame).[/QUOTE]
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