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That's an interesting looking coin. I especially like the little nibble that's been removed.

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There were a lot of fantastic coins in PCI2010. I sure hope that we will make PCI2013 even bigger and better. Let's photograph those beauties and prepare to enter them. Saor Alba's Scottish Coronation Medal by Nicholas Briot, handed out by King Charles I in 1633 A fascinating memento from Scottish and British history, this AR medal by Nicholas Briot was struck in 1633 to commemorate Charles I's very belated Scottish coronation that year. His coronation should have been much earlier, he ascended the throne in 1625, but he carelessly delayed said coronation until finally giving into demands that it be done in 1633. His introduction of Anglican liturgy into the coronation ceremony did little to endear him to his Scottish subjects, and things went decidedly sour thereafter. On his return trip to London his baggage including many crown jewels were lost in the Firth of Forth, just off of Burntisland. Subsequently alleged witches were brought to trial in London, on charges of causing the shipwreck. Things went down for Charles I from there on, both in Scotland and in England. This lovely medal, with a lifelike portrait of the monarch, was commissioned to Nicholas Briot, a famous and skilled coiner. This medal was struck in a screw press, and is actually much better detailed as a result. One of these medals was struck piedfort in gold, which was presented to the King, he kept it as a pocket piece until his death in 1649. The silver examples like this one were thrown by the king to the crowds at the coronation ceremony.

Sorry -can't get you photo to load right now. But welcome to CoinPeople. Glad that you decided to join us and I hope that you make a lot of friends and enjoy it here.

Nice start on your collection and a very nice website too.

Submissions will begin 15March2013. Voting dates are unknown. It depends on the number of submissions.

It is interesting. I don't have any information for you about it. Hopefully someone will come along with something to add.

Terrific post. This is very interesting. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I'm wondering how many of you remember this beauty from PCI2010. Absolutely gorgeous. elverno's 1812 Loge de l'ardente amitié de Rouen, France All Masonic medals from the Napoleonic era qualify as RR+. This one hails from the collection of Prince Victor Napoleon, sometimes known as Napoleon V to supporters. His collection came in part from Napoleon I's personal collection but there's no indication in this pieces' provenance as to when and where to came into his collection. Marvin's book on Masonic medals describes it as follows: "Obverse, On the left, an altar surrounded by a garland, and having on it three burning hearts. At the foot of the altar are the square, compasses, level, and plumb. Above, on the right, a radiant triangle. In exergue, ARDENTE AMITIE O.-. DE ROUEN. in two lines. Reverse, A leafless tree, over which an ivy vine has grown. Legend, LA MORT MEME NE L'EN A PAS SEPARE. [Death itself has not separated them.] This is an octagonal jeton, and was probably struck about 1812. Silver. Size 20." His sizes were in sixteenths of an inch.

Here are the PCI2013 Rules: Seven Materials Trees: Gold Silver Copper Other Precious Metals (platinum, palladium, etc) Other Base Metals (nickel, Cu-Ni, steel, aluminum, etc) Bimetallic (must be significantly and obviously bimetallic (i.e. silver plugged copper coins are still considered copper)) Non-Metallic (wood, ceramic, paper, etc) In each tree, there will be 9 branches: Group 1: Ancient & Medievel: XX-1500AD Group 2: 1501-1700 Group 3: 1701-1800 Group 4: 1801-1900 Group 5: 1901- 2000 Group 6: 2001- Present Group 7: NCLT Group 8: Exonumia Group 9: Special Coins - anything you collect that you feel warrants being outside the other categories. Entry specifics: 1. You may enter as many of the trees and groups as you wish. 2. You may enter a max of three (3) coins in each group. 3. Submit only coins that belong to you - no borrowed coins or borrowed images 4. A heading before each coin image url should in the following format: ...your ID; tree ID; group ID; coin description For example: Sylvester, Silver, 1901-2000, 1930-P USA Standing Liberty Quarter 5. Images of the coins must be in omnicoin.com --- reasons for this have been discussed on a number of occasions. 6. Please post your images for each tree in a single post in the proper thread for that tree. 7. Post only the url of the image -- not an img post 8. Include a brief description of the coin/item that you would like included along with the image in the competition. Here's your chance to bring the historic importance to the forefront. 9. The submission threads will be opened when PCI2013 officially begins and locked before the first competition postings take place. Until they're locked you can edit your post to make whatever changes needed. Make sure you tell us when you make a major edit. Please do not add additional posts to the submission threads.

PCI2013 will open for submissions on 15th March 2013 and will accept submissions thru 29 March 2013. As always I will open submission threads for each of the 7 trees of the competition. Each person should create one post in the appropriate tree threads to cover all of their submissions for that tree. Please group your submissions in logical order - it makes my life easier. The voting schedule will be announced after all submissions are received.

I don't understand why you cannot create an album. I've sent a note to Akdrv about it and either he or I will post the answer here for you.

That's an interesting project you're working on. I've not heard of the 12.5 cent plastic before but I too would like to know more about it. Perhaps the ANA has some info..

Here's one of the Finalists from PCI2010. Put those sunglasses on before viewing this one. Sylvester's 1930-P USA Standing Liberty Quarter

It looks like a nice coin. I have no idea about its authenticity. Welcome to CoinPeople.

Well we've seen the gold category winner and the silver category winner and the copper category winner and last of the big face-off the "Other Categories Winner". It's a great coin and I'm glad that it won. PCI2011 BASEMETALS, BIMETALLIC, NON-METALS, etc. WINNER Mark Stilson's Feuchtwanger composition one cent

Very interesting subject. Welcome to CoinPeople. I hope that this thread continues as these seem to be more common now than ever. A fellow at the local coin club was commenting on 50 and 100 dollar bills with small stamps. Supposedly they are drug-dealer identification marks. Similar to what they put on some of their products. Not sure I believe that one but in some ways it makes sense.

That's a nice WWII memento.

You are probably right. It is a great coin. Why not give that thread a kickstart - maybe with a beauty that you'll enter in PCI2013?

We can't really talk about a great competition and beautiful winners and not mention COPPER, in my opinion one of the most beautiful and useful of all metals. PCI2011 COPPER WINNER elverno's 1808 La Reine de Naples, France

Hello and welcome to CoinPeople. I'm sure you'll be able to find lots of useful information and a bunch of really nice people here.

Nice coin Michael. Not my area of collecting but I'm sure someone will be able to help you.

Forgot to ask. Can we expect to see a few of these in PCI2013?

Very nice set and project. I've only completed a few sets in my collecting history and it's a great feeling, and the sets I did were actually quite easy compared to your challenge. Have fun with it and keep enjoying.