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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7532033, member: 110504"]Fantastic writeup, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]. And and two more solid coins! I especially like the decanoummion. It's fun to see you expanding into the minor denominations. And I'm likely to go trawling for a copy of that NG.</p><p>...Sorry, among the handful of Byzantines I have pics of, any of them would be redundant here. But your observaton about Byzantine emperors had to remind me of medieval monarchs in the West. When you run across one who, in any capacity, was a conscientious ruler, you almost breathe a sigh of relief. I liken Louis IX /St. Louis, with his extensive domestic reforms on one hand, and his two disastrous crusades on the other, to the US president Lyndon Johnson. A sterling record on Civil Rights, and the aspirational economic reform of the Great Society, interrupted and derailed by his belly-dive into the Vietnam War.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7532033, member: 110504"]Fantastic writeup, [USER=111037]@Only a Poor Old Man[/USER]. And and two more solid coins! I especially like the decanoummion. It's fun to see you expanding into the minor denominations. And I'm likely to go trawling for a copy of that NG. ...Sorry, among the handful of Byzantines I have pics of, any of them would be redundant here. But your observaton about Byzantine emperors had to remind me of medieval monarchs in the West. When you run across one who, in any capacity, was a conscientious ruler, you almost breathe a sigh of relief. I liken Louis IX /St. Louis, with his extensive domestic reforms on one hand, and his two disastrous crusades on the other, to the US president Lyndon Johnson. A sterling record on Civil Rights, and the aspirational economic reform of the Great Society, interrupted and derailed by his belly-dive into the Vietnam War.[/QUOTE]
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