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Jester's Challenge #211

Welcome to Jester's Challenge, an interactive history lesson.

Inspired by many others here on the Darkside forum, I'd like to present what I hope will turn into a great learning experience for all of us. Many members on this World and Ancient Coin Forum have done a formidable job of sharing with us many fascinating and historically important coins. Since looking at coins is also one of my greatest pleasures, I'd like to try to follow in that time-honored tradition and submit for your pleasure and entertainment some world coins I've come across in my short lifetime.

I will pick out a coin on a regular basis, and post it along with the challenge to you to name the coin, its provenance, denomination, metallic content, mintage, any distinguishing characteristics or noteworthy features, and its value. The more information, the better. I'd like as many people as possible to participate, regardless of how little knowledge you might have on the subject. I appreciate comments on every aspect of the coin, including its history, or its role in human history, or info on similar coins in its series, etc. I myself don't presume to know 1/1000 of what you collectively know, hence my challenge to all of you to share your knowledge with the rest of us. Hopefully this exercise will encourage thought, discussion, and most importantly, more friendship.

Thanks for your participation!!!

Here is the two hundred eleventh selection:

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.....GOD
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"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

"For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22

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    Not really an expert on anything before 1800, so just a shot... Anne halfcrown?
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    First DAMMIT BOY! 25/9/05 (Finally!)

    " XpipedreamR is cool because you can get a bottle of 500 for like a dollar. " - Aspirin

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    1jester1jester Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭
    Right on, Philip. There are a few varieties, and this one has the E mintmark. I don't know anymore about it. But I do want to acknowledge Aethelred as the generous donor!!! Thanks, Your Deadness!

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    .....GOD
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    "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you." -Luke 11:9

    "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." -Deut. 6:4-5

    "For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; He will save us." -Isaiah 33:22
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
    mmmmm Lions,,, I like itimage
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    << <i> Thanks, Your Deadness! >>



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    4 765 of 50 971 (9.35%) complete image

    First DAMMIT BOY! 25/9/05 (Finally!)

    " XpipedreamR is cool because you can get a bottle of 500 for like a dollar. " - Aspirin

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    Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Queen Anne Shilling

    "Post Union reverse, featuring crowned cruciform shields as previously, but on opposing pair of shields is now halved vertically, with the three English leopards and the single Scottish rampant lion. The other shields bear a harp and three fleurs-de-lys."



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    "It's far easier to fight for principles, than to live up to them." Adlai Stevenson
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