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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7915565, member: 110504"][USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER], that's kind of amazing. Along with [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]'s resonant contributions. ...Of your options, I have to start with "scary." </p><p>This calls for the one denier of Penthievre that I have pics of. This is an immobilization, through the later 12th century, of Count Stephen /Etienne I (1093-1138), minted in Guingamp, on the northern Breton coast. The immobilizatons do lots of, well, <i>interesting </i>stuff with the obverse profile (which wasn't much to write home about in the first place). </p><p>Coming as it does from a separate prototype, this issue follows a separate trajectory from the better known "bleso-chartrain" variants, which are legion in the same, earlier French feudal series. Inviting collecting more than one, to see the --loud coughing ensues-- "progression." </p><p><br /></p><p>Obv. STEPHAN COM[ES; Count]. Rev. Profile; +GVINGAMP. Duplessy 364.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367612[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1367619[/ATTACH] </p><p>I'm a fan of abstraction per se, whether in Celtic, Byzantine, or southern and central Asian series (thank you, plural). But for the French feudal series, this really registers as one place where it seriously starts to go off the rails.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7915565, member: 110504"][USER=80952]@ambr0zie[/USER], that's kind of amazing. Along with [USER=91461]@Ryro[/USER]'s resonant contributions. ...Of your options, I have to start with "scary." This calls for the one denier of Penthievre that I have pics of. This is an immobilization, through the later 12th century, of Count Stephen /Etienne I (1093-1138), minted in Guingamp, on the northern Breton coast. The immobilizatons do lots of, well, [I]interesting [/I]stuff with the obverse profile (which wasn't much to write home about in the first place). Coming as it does from a separate prototype, this issue follows a separate trajectory from the better known "bleso-chartrain" variants, which are legion in the same, earlier French feudal series. Inviting collecting more than one, to see the --loud coughing ensues-- "progression." Obv. STEPHAN COM[ES; Count]. Rev. Profile; +GVINGAMP. Duplessy 364. [ATTACH=full]1367612[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1367619[/ATTACH] I'm a fan of abstraction per se, whether in Celtic, Byzantine, or southern and central Asian series (thank you, plural). But for the French feudal series, this really registers as one place where it seriously starts to go off the rails.[/QUOTE]
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