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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7753153, member: 110504"]<i>Very</i> cool overstrike, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER].</p><p>...I (<i>really</i>) hope this doesn't verge on the sacrilegious, only starting with highly valued members of this forum, but the St. Mary orans above the face of Christ evokes the ikonography of St. Mary with the face of the infant Jesus over her heart. (You knew this: routinely appearing on coins.) ...But here, He's full-grown.</p><p>...If you wanted to, you could wax theological about the implications, since, for one, she was present at the Crucifixion. But it has to be time (particularly for Protestants) to shut up. </p><p>Anyway, given that I like an interesting overstrike as much as anyone, this one is a particularly evocative convergence of motifs, ostensibly transcending the merely historical connotations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7753153, member: 110504"][I]Very[/I] cool overstrike, [USER=84744]@Severus Alexander[/USER]. ...I ([I]really[/I]) hope this doesn't verge on the sacrilegious, only starting with highly valued members of this forum, but the St. Mary orans above the face of Christ evokes the ikonography of St. Mary with the face of the infant Jesus over her heart. (You knew this: routinely appearing on coins.) ...But here, He's full-grown. ...If you wanted to, you could wax theological about the implications, since, for one, she was present at the Crucifixion. But it has to be time (particularly for Protestants) to shut up. Anyway, given that I like an interesting overstrike as much as anyone, this one is a particularly evocative convergence of motifs, ostensibly transcending the merely historical connotations.[/QUOTE]
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