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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2571719, member: 10461&quot;]This struck me as well.&nbsp; It looks like a vampire zombie horse, but only in the coolest way!</p><p><br /></p><p>We have big, beefy men in armor, large weaponry, a lion, an elaborate helmet, and the sinister looking armored horse and his rider charging across the reverse.&nbsp; And then there are all those heraldic shields.&nbsp; There is so much going on here!</p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, it was only around the end of the 15th century, and really more into the 16th, that the European mintmasters developed enough craftsmanship to finally catch up to the Romans of a millennium and a half before them, and only by the dawn of the 17th century, when this coin was struck, did they reach the high standard of artistry set by the ancient Greeks of the Classical era.&nbsp; The long stagnancy of the medieval period was over, and it&#039;s about here that we cross over into the &quot;early modern&quot; age.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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