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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7617086, member: 110504&quot;]That &quot;neither&quot; quote is from Voltaire.&nbsp; (I know that because it&#039;s my personal (mmmaybe a Little idiosyncratic) favorite line of his.)&nbsp; Here&#039;s a coissue of the emperor Konrad I and the future emperor Heinrich III as &#039;King of the Romans&#039; (the German equivalent of the later Roman title, &#039;Caesar&#039;).&nbsp; Triangulating from Konrad&#039;s death, that&#039;s 1028-1039.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1310996[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1310997[/ATTACH]</p><p>The neo-Byzantine motif on the reverse predates the &#039;Great Schism&#039; between Catholic and Eastern Orthodox communions (1055), while evoking the German &quot;emperors&#039;&quot; readiness to appropriate Byzantine visual rhetoric.</p><p>Konrad and Heinrich facing, both crowned.&nbsp; +CHONRADI P[atri]. HEINRICI</p><p>St. Mary, haloed, face of the infant Christ in front of her.&nbsp; +SCA MARIA&nbsp; (Dannenberg 829)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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