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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4971595, member: 110504&quot;]Yowie!&nbsp; Some Cool Bulgarian stuff going on here!</p><p>...And, right, the (later) transition from hammered to milled has been a truism in British numismatics, to resort to some Bob Marley interview, &#039;from time.&#039;&nbsp; But it translates less smoothly to other, Continental series.&nbsp; A collective case in point are the Italian issues with screamingly Renaissance portraits, especially profiles, from at least the earlier 15th century.&nbsp; ...As emulated in England from Henry VII ...who had St. George&#039;s Chapel built at Windsor Castle; pretty emphatically late Gothic.</p><p>I remember the musicologist and harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, in an interview, talking about the transition from Renaissance to Baroque keyboard music, especially in Italy, in terms of the c. early 17th-c. terms, &#039;prima pratica&#039; and &#039;secunda pratica.&#039;&nbsp; (--SP???)&nbsp; His point being that, for a considerable interval, they coexisted.</p><p>...So, yeah, with acknowledgement of your prior qualifications, I&#039;m more inclined to think of the milled-hammered transition as being only more localized to the British series (plural).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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