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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5144358, member: 110504"]If your frame of reference runs more to Edward I's New Coinage, like mine does, the lettering style changes dramatically over the 14th and 15th centuries, becoming more 'Lombardic'. Kind of a dress rehearsal for Henry VII's first Renaissance, profile groats and halfgroats ...right, still with very Lombardic, late Gothic lettering.</p><p>...Speaking of lettering, even for English hammered, I reflexively put the cut-off between 'medieval' and 'modern' not at the shift from hammered to milled, but between late Gothic and Roman lettering. To me, that Yells 'Renaissance /Modern /16th century /we're not in Kansas anymore.' ..Doesn't strike me as being any more arbitrary a criterion than the merely technological shift in minting practice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5144358, member: 110504"]If your frame of reference runs more to Edward I's New Coinage, like mine does, the lettering style changes dramatically over the 14th and 15th centuries, becoming more 'Lombardic'. Kind of a dress rehearsal for Henry VII's first Renaissance, profile groats and halfgroats ...right, still with very Lombardic, late Gothic lettering. ...Speaking of lettering, even for English hammered, I reflexively put the cut-off between 'medieval' and 'modern' not at the shift from hammered to milled, but between late Gothic and Roman lettering. To me, that Yells 'Renaissance /Modern /16th century /we're not in Kansas anymore.' ..Doesn't strike me as being any more arbitrary a criterion than the merely technological shift in minting practice.[/QUOTE]
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