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Coin Or Fantasy Piece? | Replica Alfred The Great Penny

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 Posted 08/04/2011  01:51 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add valdiman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi.I'm not specialist on ancient coins but I think is tourists souvenir-or not?

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 Posted 08/05/2011  01:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Though it was clearly made in imitation of ancient Roman coinage, this is not Roman, nor technically "ancient" - this is from Anglo-Saxon England, king Alfred the Great of Wessex, London mint-monogram, 886-899 AD. However, the note in Spink for this coin (# 1061) says "copies made of tin at the Wembley Exhibition are common" - and given the porous nature of your coin, I suspect it to be one such copy.
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Thanks Sap.Sorry for late reply but I was traveling across Europe.
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