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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ycon, post: 3203491, member: 91771&quot;]I can. (*not* my coin):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/30/718/473797.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cynethryth. Wife of Offa, 757-796. AR Penny (from CNG) </p><p><br /></p><p>Look at that stunningly elegant and stylized portrait! </p><p><br /></p><p>While I&#039;m on the topic of coins that I do not own, possibly my favorite coin of the middle ages is the Augustalis of Frederick II. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.acsearch.info/media/images/archive/95/2594/2672828.m.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Frederick II. Sicily. After 1231. (image from Sincona, via acsearch) </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin corresponds to the very first inklings of the Renaissance in Italy. The sculptor Nicolo Pisano was probably trained at and worked for a time at the court of Frederick. His sculpture is the first to incorporate classical influences in hundreds of years. This coin, too, represents the first return to classical forms of coinage. One look at it and you can understand what was Roman about the Romanesque.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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