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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6191860, member: 110504&quot;][USER=75143]@hotwheelsearl[/USER], I&#039;m betting that [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER], just for one, could discuss what was happening in other media --notably&nbsp; in contrast to contemporary coins-- in more depth than you&#039;ll get from here.</p><p>But in the more specific, technical context of engraving and minting, the phenomenon evokes what I run into with European coins of the &#039;High Medieval&#039; period (c. 1000 - c. 1250 /1300).&nbsp; Especially over the course of the 12th and into the mid-13th century, you can see a lag between state-of-the-art lettering, only most obviously on manuscripts, and how it translated to contemporary die-sinking practice.</p><p>Which is not to minimize the likelihood that, in both collective cases, all kinds of other upheaval were contributing to the net effect.&nbsp; Just to start at a more prosaic, technical level....[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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