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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4877851, member: 110504"][USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], that Floris Tournooise Groot is remarkable for keeping the original mint signature, 'TVRONIS CIVIS' on the 'chatel' side. But [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]' 12th c. bracteate with St. Stephen is phenomenal. ...There's just something different about the full-flanned ones of the initial century. Serious numismatic evidence of the '12th-century Renaissance.' Here's mine, the only one I have that's earlier than just either side of 1200. This one's Magdeburg, with their patron saint, Maurice /Moritz. "+SC-S. MAVRICIVS. DVX." (The Medieval Latin "Dux" appears to have had other connotations than just 'Duke' -or 'Marquis,' or 'Graf.' --Notably martial ones; Maurice was yet another martial saint, appropriated from Ottonian times in connection with the eastern frontier of the German Empire.[ATTACH=full]1178175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4877851, member: 110504"][USER=87271]@AnYangMan[/USER], that Floris Tournooise Groot is remarkable for keeping the original mint signature, 'TVRONIS CIVIS' on the 'chatel' side. But [USER=96898]@Orielensis[/USER]' 12th c. bracteate with St. Stephen is phenomenal. ...There's just something different about the full-flanned ones of the initial century. Serious numismatic evidence of the '12th-century Renaissance.' Here's mine, the only one I have that's earlier than just either side of 1200. This one's Magdeburg, with their patron saint, Maurice /Moritz. "+SC-S. MAVRICIVS. DVX." (The Medieval Latin "Dux" appears to have had other connotations than just 'Duke' -or 'Marquis,' or 'Graf.' --Notably martial ones; Maurice was yet another martial saint, appropriated from Ottonian times in connection with the eastern frontier of the German Empire.[ATTACH=full]1178175[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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