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Message:: [QUOTE="Hiddendragon, post: 26043801, member: 25270"]I first became aware of this coin when it showed up as a suggestion at the bottom of an eBay page. I fell in love immediately but the one on eBay was from a seller who seemed pretty shady, and I didn't like any of the other ones available either. So next I checked on MA Shops. They had one available. It was in a details grade holder and was selling for what to me is an almost unthinkable amount of money to spend on a coin. Still, I was really thinking about pulling the trigger. Then I had the idea to check the website of a coin shop about 20 miles away from me that specializes in foreign coins and has a monthly ad in World Coin News. I looked and sure enough they had the coin I wanted listed. I sent an email and got no answer, so the next day I called and was surprised to find out they still had it. I just happened to have a half day off of work the next day so I went there and bought it. I still paid twice what I've ever paid for another coin for this, but if I had bought the one on MA Shops it would have been four times what I'd ever spent. So the coin in question: 1848 Venice 5 lire. 1848 was a year of revolution in Europe and this was produced by the revolutionary government. Only 11,000 were made. Pretty good job by those rebels, I must say![ATTACH=full]1656037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]