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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4904490, member: 110504&quot;]...Well, sure, why not.&nbsp; Here are mine, both of Magdeburg.&nbsp; The first one was posted not long ago, in another thread from [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER].&nbsp; (Except, [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER], here, you took that thread, and Ran with it!&nbsp; ...And you covered some Yardage!&nbsp; I&#039;m contemplating trying to emulate your example in one of my next ones.)&nbsp; It&#039;s my only one from the initial, 12th-century German phase, and of anything approaching the original, larger, swoon-inducingly artistic module.[ATTACH=full]1183124[/ATTACH]</p><p>The second is c. late 12th -early 13th century.&nbsp; I got it mainly to represent the reign of Philipp the Swabian (son of Friedrich Barbarossa) as &#039;King of the Romans,&#039; a candidate for succession to the German Empire before his assassination, ending Staufen rule.[ATTACH=full]1183138[/ATTACH]</p><p>[USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER] isn&#039;t making it up about issues of Magdeburg being the cheapest of the initial German ones.</p><p>...But I do have one question, [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER].&nbsp; I have this dim memory of having read (...somewhere) that, at least as of the 12th century, the dies might have been engraved on wood.&nbsp; Does that hold any water, or should it be relegated to the dustbin of historical speculation?&nbsp; ...Have I already missed something you said, in your enlightening (...as in, really; in real time) description of the striking process?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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