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Gresham
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 Posted - 07/22/2007 : 13:45:24
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It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Georges, and Louises, doubloons and double guineas and moidores and sequins, the pictures of all the kings of Europe for the last hundred years, strange Oriental pieces stamped with what looked like wisps of string or bits of spider's web, round pieces and square pieces, and pieces bored through the middle, as if to wear them round your neck -- nearly every variety of money in the world must, I think, have found a place in that collection; and for number, I am sure they were like autumn leaves, so that my back ached with stooping and my fingers with sorting them out.
-- Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
So I started collected or hoarding foreign coins. The silver foreign coins that is. They still have the benifit that for the most part the collector premium is alot lower than for the US coins. I like the coins that have the weight and purity stamped on the coins. The only coins like this are Mexico and other Spanish Empire countries
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Edited by - Gresham on 07/22/2007 13:46:07 |
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