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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 6477672, member: 26430&quot;]Congratulations! I had to look this coin up to learn what it was, but I can see why you are so excited. </p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, when trying to learn what these were, I came across a fun article about them from an Irish archaeological society journal in 1855. (No doubt there is more current research, but I&#039;m a sucker for the old numismatic literature with its line-drawings!) If you&#039;re interested, it&#039;s available on JSTOR (you don&#039;t need an account, it&#039;s open access), &quot;<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25493670.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25493670.pdf" rel="nofollow">On the Irish Coins of Mary</a>,&quot; <i>Proceedings and Transactions of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society</i>, 1855, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1855), pp. 357-368.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any particularly relevant to the type, so I&#039;ll share my own &quot;Greatest coin in my collection,&quot; not the greatest because it&#039;s the best coin or the most attractive or desirable or expensive, but because it was the first one (purchased in the summer of 1988 (or 87?)). My parents got me into ancient coin collecting, and we bought this one from a Paris coin shop while traveling.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1258758[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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