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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2519452, member: 10461&quot;]<blockquote><p></p><p>This just arrived from an eBay seller in Israel.&nbsp; Cost me a mere fourteen bucks, even after overseas shipping.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1548 Poland/Lithuania half-groschen</b></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/q4oAAOSwMtxXvAbL/s-l0800.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what I like about these:</p><ol> <li>The early dates.</li> <li>They&#039;re silver.</li> <li>They have a cool design (mounted knight/eagle)</li> <li>They&#039;re not teeny-tiny like a Hungarian denar (my other favorite early-dated coins)</li> <li>They&#039;re very affordable (even in Mint State for not much more than $100).</li> </ol> </p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I know they&#039;re relatively common, but I think they pack a lot of bang for the buck.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another one I had a while back, purchased already in an NGC AU58 slab, for $98.&nbsp; I could&#039;ve had my pick of a couple others in low MS grades (MS61, mostly), for only ten or fifteen bucks more, but I liked this AU58 more.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Poland-Lithuania-AR-HalfGros-1550-009808.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k173/lordmarcovan/Poland-Lithuania-AR-HalfGros-1550-009808-slab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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