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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 8055800, member: 1765&quot;]I took a photo of this painting when I was at the Getty Museum last week, mostly to share with coin folk.&nbsp; Quentin Massys (or Metsys or Matsys) painted several morally judgmental portaits in the early 16th century, like this one, called<i> Tax Collectors. </i>Like other painters of the time, including Holbein and Dürer, it depicts the subject in extremely fine detail, both in terms of physical appearance and character.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1395730[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Naturally, I looked up close at the coins in the painting to see if there was anything I recognized, as they were also depicted with rather fine detail.&nbsp; Massys was from Leuven and/or Antwerp, which were part of the Duchy of Brabant.&nbsp; I have a couple coins of that era, including this Double Briquet of 1481.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://varslab.com/misc/1481dbrqt-5598.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As these are rather common today, at least for 15th century dated coins, surely he&#039;d have had one or more in the painting.&nbsp; I blew up the photo when I got home to take a closer look, and it looks like there are at least two of these depicted at the left and right of the picture below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1395735[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>They&#039;d be much sharper had I been able to shoot at ISO 200 rather than ISO 1100.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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