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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 4938273, member: 10461&quot;]It took 19 years for me to convince [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] to sell me this, his namesake Aethelred II penny.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/ep2J2EwUSEWBY4FvCgye_England-AR-penny-AethelredII-074500-frame-v2.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2013, I caught him at a time when he was focusing exclusively on ancients and selling some of his British collection.&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t believe he would sell me this one, but one day, he did.</p><p><br /></p><p>I cherished it for several years as one of my Top Three coins, but in the end, he saw sense, and regretted his decision.&nbsp; Also, I owed him money, and so I relented and eventually sold it back to him to clear the books.&nbsp; It <i>was</i> his namesake coin, after all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nowadays he&#039;s an established dealer with his own brick and mortar shop, and he moves five-figure coins occasionally (he bought a nice Pine Tree shilling the other day).&nbsp; So this is no longer all that big a coin for his collection (except sentimentally).&nbsp; But back in 1994 when he first got this piece, it was a real trophy by our (younger, more impoverished) standards.&nbsp; So much so that he chose &quot;Aethelred&quot; as his internet name.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m the one who got it into the PCGS MS63 slab.&nbsp; During his first ownership of the coin, he submitted it to ICG <font size="3">(why? the reason is lost to time)</font>, and they gave it an AU55 grade.&nbsp; Me later getting the 63 on it was vindication, since we had both always believed it was a Mint State coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>A <i>hoard</i> coin, almost certainly, but alas, all prior provenance is unknown.&nbsp; I like to colorfully imagine it having been excavated from a Viking-era ship burial.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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