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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1637309, member: 19463&quot;]They are an attractive and varied group.&nbsp; If there is anything to criticize it would be skipping the opportunity to use the coins to educate those of us who could benefit from hearing details about each of the coins (like the denomination question).&nbsp; I suspect each of these has something interesting that is not obvious to those of us who do not specialize in the period.&nbsp; I wonder how many viewers know all about these types (I certainly don&#039;t) and how many would find value, for example, in mention of the two hammered pieces (correct?) or the four XXX designs on the reverse of the William and Mary half crown?&nbsp; &nbsp; We barely overlap in the periods of our interest (below is my newest UK coin) but it is nice to see the group.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]234995.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Charles I hammered half crown (considerably clipped)</p><p>Looking at this and the milled ones that followed so soon after, one has to wonder how much hatred of the French played in adopting the technology after the long delay following the Elizabeth 6d test coin.&nbsp; Do you know anything about the cost/difficulty of producing coins in the two methods or was this just a case of it being hard to get people to adopt new ways?</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for the post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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