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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 4375790, member: 15588&quot;]Beauty is so subjective. And it doesn&#039;t have to apply only to pure aesthetics. Personally, I find that many of the cruder hammered designs have more &quot;beauty&quot; from a human perspective. One can&#039;t escape the purely human element, not to mention the limitations that went along with it, that went into such pieces. The fact that human hands that disappeared so long ago, we will likely never know exactly whose, forged these so-called &quot;crude&quot; items within the context of their times gives them a deep beauty. One has to have the ability to put such pieces into the context of their own era and technology, which can require some imagination and scrutiny beyond mere surface design appeal. Add to it the historical perspective of the fall of Rome and the loss of their meticulous coinage techniques, the relative &quot;crudity&quot; of the coin above, along with nearly all medieval hammered coins, signifies the non-linearity of progress that we all take for granted today (whether wisely or not is another question) and it teaches us something about ourselves and our world. Plus, gold is almost always pretty to look at. If all of that isn&#039;t beautiful, then I don&#039;t know what is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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