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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 657308, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Oblique comments on Cnut</b></p><p><br /></p><p>It is not my area, either, although I will have an article out soon on medievals.&nbsp; It was a restricted topic and took a couple of years to write.&nbsp; Myself, for this, I would have to rotate the coin and toggle it in the lighting to see and read all the letters.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a handy booklet, <i>Reading Medieval European Coins</i> by Ralph S. Walker.&nbsp;&nbsp; Alan Berman gives one out free with each new order of nine generic medievals for $111 ($108+SH), and sells the book for $9.50.&nbsp; See his website <a href="http://www.bermania.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.bermania.com/" rel="nofollow">www.bermania.com</a>&nbsp; He runs that deal in the pages of <i>The Celator</i>, but it is not on his website.&nbsp; I took advantage of it when I started collecting.&nbsp; I kept a few for myself, gave or sold the rest and, of course, still have the book.</p><p><br /></p><p>All of that is to say, your [a] picture is the reverse, of course and it is 180 off.&nbsp; I think that if you put the little cross at 12 o&#039;clock,&nbsp; the legend reads easier.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, if you view the obverse (heads) side obliquely, you might see the king become more natural and less like a frightened skeleton.&nbsp; With many Celtic coins, even into the Middle Ages, that was the case: viewing the coin more edge-on was the cutter&#039;s intent.&nbsp; We learned to see things front-on from Renaissance perspective techniques in painting.&nbsp; (Read <a href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/SeeingThePast/324" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/SeeingThePast/324" rel="nofollow">this article </a>by museum curator Geraldine Chimirri-Russell.&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like the teeny tiny letters, scroll down and look at the last two coins: <b>One picture is worth 1000 words.</b>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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