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Today I'm joined by John Mann.

He's a numismatist and coin dealer, as well as a British coinage specialist, specializing in

coins from the 7th to 17th century, especially Anglo-Saxon

in Viking coins. You can find John at his website, and that is John manncoins.com. John, without an H,

J-O-N, man, M-A-D-N-Coins.com. John, thank you so much for joining me today. Pleasure.

Yeah, well, John, I'm so excited to have you on because I've always been fascinated with currency and coins. And when I was a

younger kid, I used to do a little bit of amateur coin collecting myself, but I've never really

dabbled in the medieval coins. but why don't you start us off today

by just telling us a little bit about yourself, you know, what do you do for a living?

How'd you get into coin dealing?

So yeah, John, why don't you just take it away from there?

Okay.

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