By Jeremy Bostwick – Senior Numismatist & Cataloger, Stack’s Bowers …… Lady Godiva in Anglo-Saxon days was a noblewoman married to Leofric, the Earl of Mercia in what is now central England. Though the legend surrounding her is viewed today rather apocryphally, it nevertheless has survived for at least seven centuries at least in part […]
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