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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4731422, member: 110504"]Congrats! I know (...a little) about how tough these are to find, and it's easy to appreciate how you prioritized the strike over the present state of the flan.</p><p>For those in radioland: One serious problem with French 'billon' of the period, versus, for instance, the Roman kind, is that, in convergence with the thinness of the flans, the main alloy is tin, instead of copper or a preexisting alloy of bronze. This sh-t is Fragile. ...Kind of underscoring the function of the operant coins as miniature historical documents. ...In this collective case, often enough to the preclusion of more obvious aesthetic criteria. ...Except, the next most affordable alternative is vellum, even a leaf at a time, and who can manage <i>that</i>, except on a really good day?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4731422, member: 110504"]Congrats! I know (...a little) about how tough these are to find, and it's easy to appreciate how you prioritized the strike over the present state of the flan. For those in radioland: One serious problem with French 'billon' of the period, versus, for instance, the Roman kind, is that, in convergence with the thinness of the flans, the main alloy is tin, instead of copper or a preexisting alloy of bronze. This sh-t is Fragile. ...Kind of underscoring the function of the operant coins as miniature historical documents. ...In this collective case, often enough to the preclusion of more obvious aesthetic criteria. ...Except, the next most affordable alternative is vellum, even a leaf at a time, and who can manage [I]that[/I], except on a really good day?[/QUOTE]
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