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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3533765, member: 98035&quot;]Byzantine is admittedly a numismatic area I do not know well... if the descent of their artistry into abstract madness was a calculated move, why didn&#039;t they just linger in the anonymous coinage, or those silver coins with a cross on one side and legend on the other? The aversion to iconography on Muslim coinage worked out pretty well for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do sometimes wonder about the strange portraiture used on many non-classical cultures, especially in Celtic Europe, India and Central Asia - was the descent into chaos due to artistic/philosophical preferences, or just a lack of skill?</p><p><br /></p><p>Celtic</p><p>[ATTACH=full]939032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]939033[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]939034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]939035[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]939036[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]939037[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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