Show EARLY ENGLISH i Some Facts Regarding Them of In Interest Interest terest to Coin Collectors Pitts Pittsburg burg It is no not too much to say that during this period of the kIngs of more or less historical fame and and In Inmany Inmany many cases with kingdoms smaller than many a county in Texas that the coins were b by r far the handsomest done in all Eur Europe pe In the countries of the Orient as India and Persia the gold oId and sliver from the royal min mints was fairer to look upon but nothing on n the continent of Europe could successfully compare with it and it is certainlY superior in many of oC its issues to the best Americans are arc permitted to do 1000 years later King OtIa Offa had some bea beaUtiful silver pennies Dennie struck with 1 his head in profile and the works under the elder eIder Edward Athelstane and Edgar are very beautiful indeed When times were troublous the style deter deteriorated deteriorated as with and Egbert Alfred the Great who wilo died 1000 years ago next October succeeded in turning out almost the worst lookIng of any of the early monarchs In spite of his skill in other directions It is worth noting that Harold the Saxon who was overthrown at Senlac or Hastings jn in 1066 has issued vastly 1 more beautiful coins than his con conqueror conqueror the first William or any of his royal successors don to Henry Henr ilL III I Nor did the later coins of England equal those of days in breadth of design and nd beauty or of xe cution until the time of Henry VIII The situation is doubtless explanatory in some of the present situation in America A eric the were ere too busY t thel eJ into order to pay jay much attention to other things |