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<p>[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 58023, member: 708"]To be honest i'd have to hold up my hands and admit i'd rather take the clad. Dunno why maybe it's because i'm interested in the history of the coins and what they've seen when they're out there jingling in pockets, rather than the intrinsics. Some might think i'm mad, even i do at times, but there you go.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love 17th century British tin coins, a highly problematic series due to being made out of an unsuitable metal but when i see a decent well preserved specimen of one of those i get far more excited about it than i would about a UNC 1686 Crown. Which is truly rarer?</p><p><br /></p><p>Same with my German coins, a zinc 5 reichspfennig with mint lustre is far more entertaining than a BU Silver 5 Reichsmark. Simply because zinc is less resistant to corrosion, and therefore a BU 5 reichspfennig is something to marvel at.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="sylvester, post: 58023, member: 708"]To be honest i'd have to hold up my hands and admit i'd rather take the clad. Dunno why maybe it's because i'm interested in the history of the coins and what they've seen when they're out there jingling in pockets, rather than the intrinsics. Some might think i'm mad, even i do at times, but there you go. I love 17th century British tin coins, a highly problematic series due to being made out of an unsuitable metal but when i see a decent well preserved specimen of one of those i get far more excited about it than i would about a UNC 1686 Crown. Which is truly rarer? Same with my German coins, a zinc 5 reichspfennig with mint lustre is far more entertaining than a BU Silver 5 Reichsmark. Simply because zinc is less resistant to corrosion, and therefore a BU 5 reichspfennig is something to marvel at.[/QUOTE]
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