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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7527050, member: 110504&quot;]Sorry,[USER=74712]@FitzNigel[/USER], I was rapidly switching gears between the literate and pre-literate classes.&nbsp; Many of whom, in northern Europe as of the 13th century no less than the Roman Empire as of the 1st and 2nd, would have been the demographic equivalent of what&#039;s left of our middle class.&nbsp; As such, many of them, in either historical context, would have been handling coins on a regular basis.</p><p>...In the case of Roman coins which people in the less Mediterranean parts of the empire would have seen, I have to speculate whether something could have been happening, on the level of numismatic propoganda, a little like all the double-entendres there are in, for instance, old Bugs Bunny and Bullwinkle cartoons.&nbsp; They were operative on two levels.&nbsp; ...With the distinction that, of the two hypothesized contexts, preliterates of the 13th century would have been quicker to accuse the issuing authority of witchcraft.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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