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<p>[QUOTE="PlanoSteve, post: 3717617, member: 91609"]That is a good question, both the images & likenesses. I suspect they didn't personally handle their coins on a daily basis, & perhaps not at all...at least not like we think. Aside from ideology, I suspect liberties were frequently taken.</p><p><br /></p><p>History is full of ignorance, both intentional (as in "I don't really care, anything will do") & contrived (as in "let's not let him/her see the real product" or "we can't possibly keep up this standard, so let's just do a few perfect ones for approval"). </p><p><br /></p><p>Reminds me of the time in the 1980's, I was working for a national food manufacturer. Every week, the VP of our division would receive a case of our product. A member from upper management would come to the production line & personally hand select product & take it to a packaging machine to have it packaged by hand, so that no broken pieces would be in those bags. We often wondered if that VP ever actually bought the product in a store & wondered why there were so many broken pieces. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>How often do you suspect rulers actually handled coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting to see how profiles change over years, but I still can't believe some of those rulers approved some of those "caricatures" (caricature is my assumption, as I can't believe some of them actually looked like that <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PlanoSteve, post: 3717617, member: 91609"]That is a good question, both the images & likenesses. I suspect they didn't personally handle their coins on a daily basis, & perhaps not at all...at least not like we think. Aside from ideology, I suspect liberties were frequently taken. History is full of ignorance, both intentional (as in "I don't really care, anything will do") & contrived (as in "let's not let him/her see the real product" or "we can't possibly keep up this standard, so let's just do a few perfect ones for approval"). Reminds me of the time in the 1980's, I was working for a national food manufacturer. Every week, the VP of our division would receive a case of our product. A member from upper management would come to the production line & personally hand select product & take it to a packaging machine to have it packaged by hand, so that no broken pieces would be in those bags. We often wondered if that VP ever actually bought the product in a store & wondered why there were so many broken pieces. :D:eek: How often do you suspect rulers actually handled coins? It is interesting to see how profiles change over years, but I still can't believe some of those rulers approved some of those "caricatures" (caricature is my assumption, as I can't believe some of them actually looked like that :smuggrin:).[/QUOTE]
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