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Jehan de Pelham

I can. If you PM me with your needs we can talk it through. It tends to be costly.

John
Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus
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Jehan de Pelham

My press is 1/2 Pelhampower or 1 Pelhampower, depending on what size coins I am striking.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I have a hard time believing that the plague was as egalitarian as people say. Prague was virtually untouched, for example. I also believe that just as always, the poor and ignorant suffered far worse than the well-to do. I don't think that armorers were poor or ignorant. John Jehan de Pelham, ecuye...

Jehan de Pelham

Coin. Vikings need silver. Just as it's been said that bound is the boatless man, it can also be said crappy is the coinless viking. I am thinking I am going to have produced a dirhem of the Umayyads of al-Andalus, from the time of 'abd al-Rahman II (822-850AD). Al-Andalus was right there along the ...

Jehan de Pelham

Yeah, but it would still be worth it's weight in silver. So those portrayals contemporary with the replica dirhem could say that they got it in their travels, and those with portrayals later could say that they have this silver, or they could incorporate it in beaded necklaces or so forth. It's defi...

Jehan de Pelham

Yeah, I've been looking around, and I have seen a buncha different types. Seems every little area had a bazillion different varieties. I will make ONE type, probably a 9th century sort so that re-enactors can make the case that they have old coins or new rather than have a sort that is from "th...

Jehan de Pelham

That would be good--I found an additional option for the anglo-saxon side as well. Harold II minted coins during his short reign as well. I think there would have been a mix of Edward the Confessor and Harold II pennies in the purses of the Anglo-Saxons--though it seems to me that there wouldn't hav...

Jehan de Pelham

Okay, I figure that the Anglo-Saxons in Britain in 1066 had coins from Edward the Confessor--what sort of money would William the Conqueror's men have had with them? When I do a search for Norman coins, I end up with William's mintages after 1066. I'm looking for what they would have had before or d...

Jehan de Pelham

Replica cash and dice!

John
Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus
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Jehan de Pelham

Thanks very much--responded via PM.

John
Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus
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Jehan de Pelham

Struck.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

Here is an example of the quality that I expect the engraving to be executed at. This is an example of how the brass will look--I asked Lorelei to minimize glare so she used a diffuse light. The photo is the obverse of a replica of a German gold coin done in brass from the House of Luxembourg, late ...

Jehan de Pelham

As in most things, the quality of your thrusting is a matter of experience and ah, empathy for your partner. To add to what Sir Dagonet said, don't grip as hard. If you don't have a death grip on the sword, it will break free once a certain threshold is passed. It will be sufficient, but if some sor...

Jehan de Pelham

I'll look around and see, that era is outside my area of specialty so I'm not as familiar with the penny you mean. You have a picture?

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I detected the coolness of this helmet from two years later and halfway around the world.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

This is some straight business ironmongery here. Great.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I am seriously considering it, your Highness. But only if the Viking community really wants it. I could see a whole other level of the game played if weregild starts becoming the rage. Or, I could have a stack of Dirhems on my hands. :/ The only consideration is, "Which one?" Probably one ...

Jehan de Pelham

I have received some private messages regarding this coin and to answer publicly these will be better-looking--more crisp--than the photograph shown, which is over 500 years old.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I have been long unhappy with the gold quarter-nobles that we have been offering. The coins are heavy and thick and they are not well rendered. I've got a photograph of the new dies that we'll be using for the 2009 strikes. It's not the coin itself, but I believe that the quality of the coin will be...

Jehan de Pelham

That's good info. It makes sense too as it was Edward the Confessor who stopped paying it. So, as I see it, there are some good ones: 1. Dirhems. These would be appropriate for the whole Viking period because they were hoarded and kept. 2. Late 10th/Early 11th Century AS coins--perhaps the Aethelred...

Jehan de Pelham

Well, it may not look as good, but it will be better than the cast clunkers out there I think. That's the goal, at least. Now, Augustus died in AD 14--the first century saw many emperors--Tiberius, Gaius (Caligula), Claudius, Nero, and then about six would-bes over a period of about two years, follo...

Jehan de Pelham

Well, I'll look into it. These are likely to be somewhat more expensive than the medieval pennies because of the form factor of the coin. These are significantly heavier than medieval pennies--they are more like half-groats in terms of materials. Quantities are important for keeping the costs reason...

Jehan de Pelham

I can't see enough of the first picture. The second picture appears to have three arabic-inscribed coins.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I do like this denarius.

What do you think?

And I agree, the others would be very nice, but I have to consider the center of gravity for the market.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

I might be straying from the original question here... I see that for strict 800AD to 1000AD Viking portrayals, it would be very appropriate to do a series of various coins from Persia, Iraq, Syria, and other locations in the Middle East. I think for the widest possible usage, I would go for a penny...

Jehan de Pelham

At long last, I am now prepared to take pre-orders of this long-awaited gold coin replica. This is a large gold-plated or brass coin replica (27mm), which according to its historical weight of appx. 54 grains, would have represented about 54 pence of worth (the 80-grain Angel of the English King Edw...

Jehan de Pelham

Very good, and complete, but usually tin. Let's narrow the usage down to decorative elements on armor. Polished appearance and a temper suitable for use in armor (hard but shy of brittle) would be desirable.

John
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Jehan de Pelham

Coins are ridiculously complex. God help me, I love 'em so...

How about coins associated with the Danegeld in the pre-Norman invasion era?

John
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Jehan de Pelham

It didn't surprise me that the dirhem would be a coin found in Viking "seachests."

Now comes to questions of marketability. Are there coins that are more European in origin that fill the bill?

John
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Jehan de Pelham

That makes sense. Did Dirhems flow back to northern Europe or were they melted down or spent in the levant?

John
Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus
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Jehan de Pelham

I understand that there was a lot of Viking action down in the levant. But why the Dirhem in particular?

John
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Jehan de Pelham

If you--as a Viking-era re-enactor--were to choose one silver coin to be reproduced in number, what would it be, and why?

John
Jehan de Pelham, ecuyer and servant of Sir Vitus
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Jehan de Pelham

If--as a Roman-era re-enactor--you could choose one Roman silver coin to be reproduced, what would it be, and why?

John
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Jehan de Pelham

Copper and tin is bronze, and I don't think that's going in the right direction, though it can look very similar. I am interested in the discussion of gold as a component. I would think it would be a small quantity and I wonder what effect 1 or 2% gold would have on the appearance of an alloy. No ma...

Jehan de Pelham

Now there the troof is drawn out. And that was my hidden purpose in throwing out my initial statement. I am the sort of fellow who will stick his neck out to obtain information and it paid off this time. The process through which Zinc is obtained, tends to result in a preponderance of Zinc, with Tin...

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