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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4854269, member: 110504&quot;]Tres, Tres Cool.&nbsp; Liking the contrast of motifs!</p><p>...But, Yes, this is the beauty of small silver coins, for those of us who&#039;ve gotten bit: the amount of detail an engraver can squeeze onto them.&nbsp; My Greek AR runs overwhelmingly to fractional drachms. </p><p>A case of budgetary constraints evolving into its own esthetic thing.&nbsp; ...Back in the day, I put together a type set of late Tudor-early Restoration halfgroats and pennies.&nbsp; In that case, only more preemptively, and less apologetically, for the esthetics.&nbsp; A Lot going on in a very limited space.&nbsp; It&#039;s habit-forming!</p><p>...The best that happens along these lines in European medieval are the petit-deniers /mailles /oboles (but it&#039;s Frenche, soe use the &#039;e&#039;) of northeastern France and the Low Countries, by the 12th and through the 13th centuries.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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