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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4675099, member: 110504"]...Okay, Stewartby seems to confirm 4A, mainly (beyond North and the generic Spink catalogue) on the basis of letter forms and punctuation. His classes 4B and 4C both have variants that 4A doesn't (pp. (35-) 36 and figure). ...North further dates the class, with all subclasses, to c. 1194-1204/5; p. 220), but 4A is unamimously attributed to Richard.</p><p>Stewartby's opening remarks on Class IV are fun, if you enjoy the kind of aesthetic gallows humor to which medieval collectors are subject --whether as initiators, or as the butt.</p><p>"Class IV.</p><p>"The coins of class IV, which constitute the issues of most of the reign of Richard I and the first five years of John's, have a strong claim to be regarded as the ugliest ever produced under the authority of the English crown" (pp. 32-3). </p><p>He goes into more detail, about how, at the level of engraving, the portraits and legends sharply deterioriate, relative to the initial issues of Henry II. But that much is quotable![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4675099, member: 110504"]...Okay, Stewartby seems to confirm 4A, mainly (beyond North and the generic Spink catalogue) on the basis of letter forms and punctuation. His classes 4B and 4C both have variants that 4A doesn't (pp. (35-) 36 and figure). ...North further dates the class, with all subclasses, to c. 1194-1204/5; p. 220), but 4A is unamimously attributed to Richard. Stewartby's opening remarks on Class IV are fun, if you enjoy the kind of aesthetic gallows humor to which medieval collectors are subject --whether as initiators, or as the butt. "Class IV. "The coins of class IV, which constitute the issues of most of the reign of Richard I and the first five years of John's, have a strong claim to be regarded as the ugliest ever produced under the authority of the English crown" (pp. 32-3). He goes into more detail, about how, at the level of engraving, the portraits and legends sharply deterioriate, relative to the initial issues of Henry II. But that much is quotable![/QUOTE]
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