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A Tiny Bit o' Bronze ...... FDC Full Lustre

MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
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.....as the Brits would say. image

A brutally common farthing in an uncommon blazing red.


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Once again, kudos to Mark for the stellar imaging!! image

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    bosoxbosox Posts: 1,654 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Red Victorian copper. My favorite! image
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    theboz11theboz11 Posts: 6,576 ✭✭✭
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    laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    image

    How is an item like this stored for 145 years at varying levels of technology and yet retain such lustrous glory? Simply love it!
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    UdoUdo Posts: 984 ✭✭
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    WWWWWW Posts: 2,616 ✭✭✭
    A beautiful example. image
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    SyracusianSyracusian Posts: 6,538 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Absolutely stunning. image
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    MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭


    << <i>image

    How is an item like this stored for 145 years at varying levels of technology and yet retain such lustrous glory? Simply love it! >>




    Laurent, I do not know for certain, but I would guess that it was placed between sheets of cotton batting and kept inside a metal box. Maybe someone put together an entire birth year set of denominations, and made the makeshift storage using the cotton/box idea. And then, it laid undisturbed for at least 100 years waiting for this poor church mus to come along. image

    Anyway, I was instantly smitten when I first saw it.
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    StorkStork Posts: 5,208 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Anyway, I was instantly smitten when I first saw it. >>

    I can see why! Very Pretty.



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    bidaskbidask Posts: 14,057 ✭✭✭✭✭
    definitely a heartpounderimage
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    lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 45,180 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I wish I could fondle that one. image

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    HussuloHussulo Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭
    Lovely example! image
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    spinaker2000spinaker2000 Posts: 4,329 ✭


    << <i>I wish I could fondle that one. image >>



    Coin molester!!!!!!!image

    Nice one Mac!!!image
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    coinkatcoinkat Posts: 24,502 ✭✭✭✭✭
    NICE

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