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<p>[QUOTE="Cachecoins, post: 4707488, member: 111237"]This thread just got good <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Great examples John and Rob. I also have an example of Athelred and you are right about how plentiful they seem to be, certainly because of Danegeld. I also have a coin of Cnut which I am getting ready to post.</p><p><br /></p><p>These are so interesting in the many different ways the largely anonymous engravers used punches and basic engraving to produce interesting, rather basic figures and text....some better than others. I always like to highlight the engravers when I post a coin but alas with these little coins it's quite impossible to give any real idea of people who created them. I guess that's the same with ancients as well. It wasn't until much later that they began to become known entities.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do believe that in coinage one can see the changing of the times. I have a good friend who is a student of the middle ages and he hates when people call it the dark ages, or assert that there was a marked declined almost across the board. But that decline is so apparent in coinage. The outstanding artistry of the Greeks and their successor states, the high quality of early Roman imperial coinage and then a slow decline until the late Roman and middle ages when portraits on coins became merely rudimentary icons of a person. When you look at most coins if Constantine or Theodosius you aren't looking at a portrait as much as an iconic representation.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1155440[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the coinage before where you could recognize the ruler by his portrait. Like this portrait which is unmistakably Tiberius.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1155436[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Or the coins after that became more and more sophisticated, true works of art.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also a generalist as well and my collection is very eclectic...I like coins throughout history... and I am prone moving into other times and places that attract me...I am also prone to rambling on. Sorry <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Cachecoins, post: 4707488, member: 111237"]This thread just got good :) Great examples John and Rob. I also have an example of Athelred and you are right about how plentiful they seem to be, certainly because of Danegeld. I also have a coin of Cnut which I am getting ready to post. These are so interesting in the many different ways the largely anonymous engravers used punches and basic engraving to produce interesting, rather basic figures and text....some better than others. I always like to highlight the engravers when I post a coin but alas with these little coins it's quite impossible to give any real idea of people who created them. I guess that's the same with ancients as well. It wasn't until much later that they began to become known entities. I do believe that in coinage one can see the changing of the times. I have a good friend who is a student of the middle ages and he hates when people call it the dark ages, or assert that there was a marked declined almost across the board. But that decline is so apparent in coinage. The outstanding artistry of the Greeks and their successor states, the high quality of early Roman imperial coinage and then a slow decline until the late Roman and middle ages when portraits on coins became merely rudimentary icons of a person. When you look at most coins if Constantine or Theodosius you aren't looking at a portrait as much as an iconic representation. [ATTACH=full]1155440[/ATTACH] Unlike the coinage before where you could recognize the ruler by his portrait. Like this portrait which is unmistakably Tiberius. [CENTER][ATTACH=full]1155436[/ATTACH][/CENTER] Or the coins after that became more and more sophisticated, true works of art. I am also a generalist as well and my collection is very eclectic...I like coins throughout history... and I am prone moving into other times and places that attract me...I am also prone to rambling on. Sorry :)[/QUOTE]
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