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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2769458, member: 10461&quot;]Not an ancient, but...</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://atlasnumismatics.com/1036301/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://atlasnumismatics.com/1036301/" rel="nofollow">I really want this - it &quot;spoke&quot; to me.</a></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not really on my &quot;shopping list&quot;, so I dunno if it will ever end up in my cart or not.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I can&#039;t stop going back and admiring it.&nbsp; (And the price was recently reduced by 69 bucks, so they must know I&#039;ve been watching...)</p><ol> <li>I like the toning very much.</li> <li>Dated 16th century coins are sexy.</li> <li>It&#039;s a decent-sized silver piece, though not crown-sized.</li> <li>I&#039;ve never had a Scottish coin.</li> <li>I&#039;m of Scottish descent on my mother&#039;s side.</li> <li>I love the thistles.</li> <li>Plus it&#039;s King James, of English bible fame, seen here as James VI of Scotland but later James I of England.</li> </ol><p>Three things have stayed my hand, though.</p><ol> <li>Price.&nbsp; I have no idea if the price is fair or not.&nbsp; And it ain&#039;t cheap.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have any reference material for this sort of thing, since Krause coverage begins in 1601.</li> <li>Plastic.&nbsp; While I have no problem with NGC coins, I <i>must</i> have good photographs of them without those intrusive &quot;prongs&quot; in the image.&nbsp; If a coin goes into a &quot;prong&quot; insert <i>after</i> it&#039;s been well-photographed, OK, but I hate it when the only available pictures have four white &quot;bites&quot; taken out of the coin by the stupid prongs.&nbsp; I wish NGC would only use Edge View inserts on coins that actually have edge lettering, and would go back to their old inserts for everything else.&nbsp; Or better yet, adopt a clear insert with less intrusive prongs like PCGS uses.&nbsp; But that&#039;s an overlong rant about plastic.</li> <li>I&#039;ve pretty much blown too much money in my recent spree anyway, and it&#039;s time to sell a few things, consolidate, get my raw stuff slabbed, and catch up with the reorganization of my &quot;Eclectic Box&quot;.</li> </ol><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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