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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26676928, member: 86815&quot;]Yes [USER=135271]@The Meat man[/USER]&nbsp; Anne VIGO coin is also on my wish list too. I read somewhere years ago that there was a story about Pirates providing the silver for pardons and they had raided Lima to get it. I can&#039;t see any Pirate giving up millions for a pardon and the reason that the British coins had Lima stamped on them was that the Spanish Silver that was seized had been made in Lima. I think there is a bit of cross pollination with VIGO going on here. Your coin photography and presentation is superb and that is a handsome shilling. I like the fact that most of these coins including my own feature some wear as they were obviously in circulation and used with pride but somewhere along the line an owner decided to &quot;salt&quot; their coin away. I often see a blue iridescence toning on these coins and wonder if it was a particular metallurgical aspect of the silver and if later coins minted from this silver that wasn&#039;t captured by the British but minted in Spain exhibited the same hues.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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