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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7894938, member: 10461"]Those are some nice red coins. Bound to be a pretty old Whitman folder, too- long out of print, I would imagine? Hope you used some cloth or something when pushing the coins into the slots. I'd be nervous with that much red copper in a folder like that, and paranoid about fingerprints and other things. </p><p><br /></p><p>It's kind of interesting how the Irish Free State and Republic had the woodcock on the reverse of their farthings while the British had the wrens going. Both cent-sized coins circulating in the British Isles were birds.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been thinking of making Wren farthings the host coins for my next <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exonumia-a-guide-to-lord-marcovan-custom-elongated-coins.377760/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exonumia-a-guide-to-lord-marcovan-custom-elongated-coins.377760/">elongated coin</a> issue, perhaps. Those, or .500 silver sixpence, or .800 Canadian Schooner dimes, or silver Roosevelt dimes. Not sure which it'll be yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7894938, member: 10461"]Those are some nice red coins. Bound to be a pretty old Whitman folder, too- long out of print, I would imagine? Hope you used some cloth or something when pushing the coins into the slots. I'd be nervous with that much red copper in a folder like that, and paranoid about fingerprints and other things. It's kind of interesting how the Irish Free State and Republic had the woodcock on the reverse of their farthings while the British had the wrens going. Both cent-sized coins circulating in the British Isles were birds. I have been thinking of making Wren farthings the host coins for my next [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/exonumia-a-guide-to-lord-marcovan-custom-elongated-coins.377760/']elongated coin[/URL] issue, perhaps. Those, or .500 silver sixpence, or .800 Canadian Schooner dimes, or silver Roosevelt dimes. Not sure which it'll be yet.[/QUOTE]
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