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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4630800, member: 110504&quot;]<b>Thank </b>you.&nbsp; As in, for the observation, never mind your reply. </p><p>To wallow in the obvious, you run into that everywhere with ancient and medieval.&nbsp; Salian denars from Germany and the Low Countries (11th -early 12th c.) are one more random example.&nbsp; It&#039;s a shame, since the designs are as ambitious as anything being done in Europe.&nbsp; (...Well, except for any number of the more ambitious coinages of Henry I of England.&nbsp; And there, the line of influence is reasonably clear.)&nbsp; But the strikes are often absolutely atrocious.&nbsp; Literally as much as half the motif can be Gone, since the coiner was too hungover, or whatever, to strike it in the first place. </p><p>(Sorry, but) in a related context, that kind of haphazard approach continues with other and later issues from the Low Countries.&nbsp; I wonder if it had any influence on the similar &quot;workmanship&quot; of Norman deniers of the same period.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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