I don't collect hammered....

[azda 979]

Another little something in the hammered range.....A Stephen Penny Type 1 Exeter

I like this very much. Did you buy this to sell?

Just something i found Clive, the price nearly made me spit out my tea €930 or €970 i think it was

[HistoricCoinage 147]

Just something i found Clive, the price nearly made me spit out my tea €930 or €970 i think it was

Doesn't at all surprise me but I'm glad to hear you were drinking tea at the time. Still keeping the British theme.

[azda 979]

Went back to it last night and had gone. Who's bought it?

[Red Riley 2]

Hope you don't me saying Derek - that's now "old history". The Romans were pretty well assimilated into the Celtic British by the time that the legions left. There's archaeological evidence from Ireland and NW England and Cornwall that Britain traded actively with Europe for several hundred years, and that Charlemagne regarded Celtic art and literature among the flower of civilisation. And medieval thought and literature and philosophy and science and education has been long overlooked by the achievements of the Renaissance, but in many respects was of a high order. The Dark Ages are only so-called because we don't know so much about them as we do about the Romans and the Normans onwards. I think it's in technology that Europe fell way behind, and that too is reflected in the coins.

I happen to love the achievements of the Classical era and laterthe Renaissance, but that doesn't mean that everything in between was a hopeless and barbaric mess with no redeeming features.

Suffice it to say, I still disagree with you but would take far too long to explain why...