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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26644590, member: 10461&quot;]Let’s open this intriguing little black case first.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1699589[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Aha.&nbsp; It’s a medal of some kind, and a handsome one, too.&nbsp; Very flashy, and proof, or prooflike.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1699590[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some chainmailed dude with a sword is about to face off with a bunch of marauding Vikings landing on a beach.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1699591[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The medal was issued by the <a href="https://www.theheritagemint.co.uk/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theheritagemint.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Heritage Mint</a> in the UK.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1699592[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It commemorates the <b>Battle of Edington</b> in 878 AD, which I had to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Edington" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Edington" rel="nofollow">look up</a>.&nbsp; Yep.&nbsp; Alfred the Great defeated the Vikings at Edington.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this what [USER=86815]@Dafydd[/USER] said was the “<i>piece of exonumia that is the only one in the USA and ever likely to be</i>”?&nbsp; I expect it is, because though there is at least one other piece of exonumia in the package, that is of a type I’ve seen before.&nbsp; This one is a new one on me, obviously.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS- <a href="https://www.theheritagemint.co.uk/product-page/edington" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.theheritagemint.co.uk/product-page/edington" rel="nofollow">I found it</a> on the Heritage Mint’s website.&nbsp; Turns out it’s layered in 24K gold.&nbsp; I wondered what composition gave it that color (or, as the Brits would spell it, <i>colour</i>).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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