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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7889736, member: 110504&quot;]Wow.&nbsp; People have really been raising the bar on the music lately ...not to mention some memorable coins, aspirationally or not!&nbsp; Here&#039;s an anonymous obole of the seigneurie of Issoudun (in Berry, a notoriously disorganized region just south of the county of Blois), c. 1044-1093.&nbsp; Duplessy 704.&nbsp; The legends are so blundered that you&#039;re really not missing much if I leave &#039;em out.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1361274[/ATTACH]</p><p>And here&#039;s a reading of a favorite short piece of Francois Couperin that I just rediscovered on YouTube.&nbsp; I especially like how the harpsichord is tuned to something within range of contemporary pitch, so that you get the kind of bass that the instrument was always supposed to have.&nbsp; ...Music for Chilling to.</p><p>[MEDIA=youtube]jdjirn-ywpM[/MEDIA][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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