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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4872023, member: 110504"]A solid Wazena, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]. Best of luck with the cleaning --I don't envy you the task, but presumably you're less clueless about that than I am.</p><p>Munro-Hay and Phillipson both go into what's known about the gilding process, especially in the initial issues of Aphilas. Of this one, Munro-Hay notes that "[a] thin sheet of gold covers the royal bust iinside the inner cricle. Sometimes, if not cleanly applied, the gold spreads in places over some of the letters of the legend." ("Aksumite Coinage," in <u>African Zion</u> (1993), p. 105, no.18.) Phillipson elaborates a bit, still in reference to Aphilas: "[t]hey were the first Aksumite coins to show the highly characteristic and visualy pleasing feaure -- unique to the Aksumite series -- whereby parts of the design were selectively gilded [...]. This neat and careful gilding, evidently applied after the coins had been struck and involving the use of mercury, has not been addequatey investigated but must have been exceeding painstaking, labour-intensive and time-consuming (...). (<u>Foundations of an African Civilization</u> (2012/2014), p. 185. Cf. Munro-Hay, <u>Aksum</u> (1991), p. 188; Aksumite Coinage (1995), pp. 40-1.)</p><p>...Rats, wish I could find a picture of my Wazena. ...And I had some dim recollection of the process changing in the later, c. 5th-7th century issues, involving some sort of fusing, rather than application of gold foil after the fact. Thought it was Munro-Hay, somewhere, comparing the metallurgical technique to Sheffield steel. But any reference to that is eluding me....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4872023, member: 110504"]A solid Wazena, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]. Best of luck with the cleaning --I don't envy you the task, but presumably you're less clueless about that than I am. Munro-Hay and Phillipson both go into what's known about the gilding process, especially in the initial issues of Aphilas. Of this one, Munro-Hay notes that "[a] thin sheet of gold covers the royal bust iinside the inner cricle. Sometimes, if not cleanly applied, the gold spreads in places over some of the letters of the legend." ("Aksumite Coinage," in [U]African Zion[/U] (1993), p. 105, no.18.) Phillipson elaborates a bit, still in reference to Aphilas: "[t]hey were the first Aksumite coins to show the highly characteristic and visualy pleasing feaure -- unique to the Aksumite series -- whereby parts of the design were selectively gilded [...]. This neat and careful gilding, evidently applied after the coins had been struck and involving the use of mercury, has not been addequatey investigated but must have been exceeding painstaking, labour-intensive and time-consuming (...). ([U]Foundations of an African Civilization[/U] (2012/2014), p. 185. Cf. Munro-Hay, [U]Aksum[/U] (1991), p. 188; Aksumite Coinage (1995), pp. 40-1.) ...Rats, wish I could find a picture of my Wazena. ...And I had some dim recollection of the process changing in the later, c. 5th-7th century issues, involving some sort of fusing, rather than application of gold foil after the fact. Thought it was Munro-Hay, somewhere, comparing the metallurgical technique to Sheffield steel. But any reference to that is eluding me....[/QUOTE]
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