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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4889608, member: 110504"]Wow, [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER], that one is amazing.</p><p>...Bringing us back to my very clipped example of Milan (another UK detector find; otherwise, no comparison), and, more to the point, your observations about how these were clipped to conform to the weight of the sceattas which were circulating a small handful of centuries later. (The thread was 'Criminally Undersized Flans.')</p><p>...Sure, why not, just for comparison. ...Other people have talked on the forum, often eloquently, about the dialectic between wear (no, really, starting with wear, vs. other modification) and social history. But with the context you provided, I'm liking how this one looks as if it could have circulated (slowly?) for the whole interval, c. early 5th to at least the 8th century.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/coins-roman-honorius-siliqua-milan-obv-jpg.1141106/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/coins-roman-honorius-siliqua-milan-rev-jpg.1141108/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4889608, member: 110504"]Wow, [USER=109923]@John Conduitt[/USER], that one is amazing. ...Bringing us back to my very clipped example of Milan (another UK detector find; otherwise, no comparison), and, more to the point, your observations about how these were clipped to conform to the weight of the sceattas which were circulating a small handful of centuries later. (The thread was 'Criminally Undersized Flans.') ...Sure, why not, just for comparison. ...Other people have talked on the forum, often eloquently, about the dialectic between wear (no, really, starting with wear, vs. other modification) and social history. But with the context you provided, I'm liking how this one looks as if it could have circulated (slowly?) for the whole interval, c. early 5th to at least the 8th century. [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/coins-roman-honorius-siliqua-milan-obv-jpg.1141106/[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/coins-roman-honorius-siliqua-milan-rev-jpg.1141108/[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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