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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4829792, member: 110504"]Please, Just, Congratulations on the example of Henry I. The other ones are no less stunning. Dang. That's a Lot of top-drawer Norman -Angevin in one place. In light of your fluency in the numismatic and (Ahem, Other) historical contexts, they obviously found the right home!</p><p>...Meanwhile, for William I and Henry I, all I have are cut fractions; zero for William II. But in the case of Henry I, it's that much more of a shame that minting practices were so retrograde. (As you, of all people, are likely to know, the quality of William I's issues suggests his summary appropriation of the late Anglo-Saxon minting infrastructure; one obvious hint being the <i>wynn</i> used as the first letter of his name.) After the nadir under William II, the designs of Henry I, even from the beginning of the reign, are remarkably innovative and ambitious. I like to think they demonstrate the influence of Salian coins from northern Germany and Frisia, especially since Henry engineered the marriage of Matilda to the Heinrich V, during Matilda's childhood. ...But, sadly, as far as striking is concerned (minus the other, er, issues), the German examples are no better. (I wrote a post about one instance of this, not long ago. ...No, I keep no better track of my own posts than anyone else's.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4829792, member: 110504"]Please, Just, Congratulations on the example of Henry I. The other ones are no less stunning. Dang. That's a Lot of top-drawer Norman -Angevin in one place. In light of your fluency in the numismatic and (Ahem, Other) historical contexts, they obviously found the right home! ...Meanwhile, for William I and Henry I, all I have are cut fractions; zero for William II. But in the case of Henry I, it's that much more of a shame that minting practices were so retrograde. (As you, of all people, are likely to know, the quality of William I's issues suggests his summary appropriation of the late Anglo-Saxon minting infrastructure; one obvious hint being the [I]wynn[/I] used as the first letter of his name.) After the nadir under William II, the designs of Henry I, even from the beginning of the reign, are remarkably innovative and ambitious. I like to think they demonstrate the influence of Salian coins from northern Germany and Frisia, especially since Henry engineered the marriage of Matilda to the Heinrich V, during Matilda's childhood. ...But, sadly, as far as striking is concerned (minus the other, er, issues), the German examples are no better. (I wrote a post about one instance of this, not long ago. ...No, I keep no better track of my own posts than anyone else's.)[/QUOTE]
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