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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5404081, member: 110504"]Gawsh, Many thanks to all. [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER], this would be the perfect place to amaze you with my erudition, but, er, I'm confused about who the portrait is. Generally, even in the case of patron saints on ecclesiastical issues, if the portrait comes with a name, that's who it's supposed to be. But throughout the subseries, Duplessy consistently interprets the headgear as a miter, rather than some form of crown. Kinda stumpy.... One guess --which I should pursue-- is whether the local Julius Caesar tradition involved some kind of hagiographic aura attached to Caesar himself ....by whatever historical and theological gymnastics.</p><p>Fantastic coin, by the way. Wow. And from more or less the absolute nadir of Valois fortunes! The irony only makes it better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5404081, member: 110504"]Gawsh, Many thanks to all. [USER=97383]@Al Kowsky[/USER], this would be the perfect place to amaze you with my erudition, but, er, I'm confused about who the portrait is. Generally, even in the case of patron saints on ecclesiastical issues, if the portrait comes with a name, that's who it's supposed to be. But throughout the subseries, Duplessy consistently interprets the headgear as a miter, rather than some form of crown. Kinda stumpy.... One guess --which I should pursue-- is whether the local Julius Caesar tradition involved some kind of hagiographic aura attached to Caesar himself ....by whatever historical and theological gymnastics. Fantastic coin, by the way. Wow. And from more or less the absolute nadir of Valois fortunes! The irony only makes it better.[/QUOTE]
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