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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5551104, member: 110504"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], the one of Contantius II is putting my head in a different place than I'm used to being, as a collector. </p><p>...Which is to say, the esthetics, per se.</p><p>(...Not really having the budget for that was, this much later, part of how I think I wound up being so deep into Medievals. Where conventional esthetics are concerned, the pressure's kind of off.)</p><p>...Except, in the case of your Constantius II, I'm stumped by how a coin can have such indifferent surfaces, if you look a second or longer, and still look so pristine --at which point, I second my own motion. That's really phenomenal. The detail looks that nearly as struck. ...As far as tooling, my guess would be that the flan would discourage people from doing such a thing. ...Right, along with smoothing![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5551104, member: 110504"][USER=44210]@ValiantKnight[/USER], the one of Contantius II is putting my head in a different place than I'm used to being, as a collector. ...Which is to say, the esthetics, per se. (...Not really having the budget for that was, this much later, part of how I think I wound up being so deep into Medievals. Where conventional esthetics are concerned, the pressure's kind of off.) ...Except, in the case of your Constantius II, I'm stumped by how a coin can have such indifferent surfaces, if you look a second or longer, and still look so pristine --at which point, I second my own motion. That's really phenomenal. The detail looks that nearly as struck. ...As far as tooling, my guess would be that the flan would discourage people from doing such a thing. ...Right, along with smoothing![/QUOTE]
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