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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3143275, member: 10461"]<font face="Verdana"><font size="4">A Tribute penny with a known hoard provenance is desirable no matter what it looks like! Nicely done!</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">(And while that one might be described as a <i>little</i> bit "ratty", it ain't bad at all! The detail is "all there", and I like it!)</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">I don't own any <i>ancients</i> with published hoard pedigrees (did have one LRB from a British hoard, but gave it to the history podcaster Dan Carlin). However, I do have two (non-ancient) coins with hoard provenance, and one of them is my latest acquisition- from just yesterday. (I got it in a swap and am excited about it, so please excuse the inclusion of a US coin here.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Verdana"><font size="4">Here are my two hoard pieces. I'd like to have a shipwreck-pedigreed piece again some time. And one day I will own an ancient with a John Quincy Adams pedigree, since I'm a descendant, and those are out there (and as of a few years ago, still reasonably affordable by working-class mortals).</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>England: silver penny of King John, ca. 1213-1215, from the Gisors Hoard found in Normandy</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The <a href="https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_5.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_5.pdf" rel="nofollow">Gisors (Eure) Hoard</a> was discovered in Normandy, France in 1970 and consisted mostly of French and continental European coins, but also included 824 English pennies and 40 cut halfpennies. The hoard was likely deposited some time in the mid-13th century, after 1244, and weighed over 15 kilograms. It had been buried in a hemp sack and traces of that remained when it was unearthed.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/npMsmrduQGGLbEkllegO_lionking.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>United States: copper large cent, Coronet type, 1818, from the Randall Hoard</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The </font></font><a href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/a-history-of-major-us-hoards-randall-hoard" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/a-history-of-major-us-hoards-randall-hoard" rel="nofollow"><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Randall Hoard</font></font></a><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"> was a large (5,000+ piece) hoard of Mint State 1816-1820-dated large cents reportedly discovered beneath a railroad platform in Georgia in 1869.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1818-jpg.803875/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 3143275, member: 10461"][FONT=Verdana][SIZE=4]A Tribute penny with a known hoard provenance is desirable no matter what it looks like! Nicely done! (And while that one might be described as a [I]little[/I] bit "ratty", it ain't bad at all! The detail is "all there", and I like it!) I don't own any [I]ancients[/I] with published hoard pedigrees (did have one LRB from a British hoard, but gave it to the history podcaster Dan Carlin). However, I do have two (non-ancient) coins with hoard provenance, and one of them is my latest acquisition- from just yesterday. (I got it in a swap and am excited about it, so please excuse the inclusion of a US coin here.) Here are my two hoard pieces. I'd like to have a shipwreck-pedigreed piece again some time. And one day I will own an ancient with a John Quincy Adams pedigree, since I'm a descendant, and those are out there (and as of a few years ago, still reasonably affordable by working-class mortals).[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]England: silver penny of King John, ca. 1213-1215, from the Gisors Hoard found in Normandy[/B] The [URL='https://www.britnumsoc.org/publications/Digital%20BNJ/pdfs/1971_BNJ_40_5.pdf']Gisors (Eure) Hoard[/URL] was discovered in Normandy, France in 1970 and consisted mostly of French and continental European coins, but also included 824 English pennies and 40 cut halfpennies. The hoard was likely deposited some time in the mid-13th century, after 1244, and weighed over 15 kilograms. It had been buried in a hemp sack and traces of that remained when it was unearthed. [IMG]https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/npMsmrduQGGLbEkllegO_lionking.jpg[/IMG] [B]United States: copper large cent, Coronet type, 1818, from the Randall Hoard[/B] The [/SIZE][/FONT][URL='https://www.pcgs.com/news/a-history-of-major-us-hoards-randall-hoard'][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5]Randall Hoard[/SIZE][/FONT][/URL][FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5] was a large (5,000+ piece) hoard of Mint State 1816-1820-dated large cents reportedly discovered beneath a railroad platform in Georgia in 1869. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/1818-jpg.803875/[/IMG] [/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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