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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6411874, member: 110504&quot;][USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER], You&#039;re just That Cool!&nbsp; Best of luck expanding your horizons in this direction!&nbsp; ...I can only wish I had (even) .jpgs of more of the 6th-c. AEs.&nbsp; --Well, Wait, here&#039;s exactly one.&nbsp; Late enough to have full Ge&#039;ez legends on both sides.&nbsp; The legends are particularly evocative of the period. [ATTACH=full]1253910[/ATTACH]</p><p>Hataz, c. 570-600 (following Munro-Hay&#039;s chronology).&nbsp; Obv. facing crowned bust; legend: &#039;King Hataz.&#039;</p><p>Rev.&nbsp; Cross; legend: &#039;Mercy to the people.&#039;</p><p>Munro-Hay 141 (also, needless to say, resorting to his translations).</p><p>On one important level, the cultural interplay in the series, from the original Koine legends (c. later 3rd-early 5th centuries), all the way to Byzantine motifs like this, effects a seamless continuation of the polycultural elements you find in earlier series from the same general neck of the regional woods, only most conspicuously Roman Provincial.&nbsp; It&#039;s a Cool series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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