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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5229418, member: 110504"]Wow, [USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER], that's pretty amazing, for a tetarteron as late as that. If I had a hat, it would be off to you. Consider the source, but, Congratulations!!!</p><p>Here's the only one (of mmmMaybe three, all scyphat trachea) that's easy to find the .jpg for. As you will know, this is of John, nearer the fall of Constantinople (...to, well, Those People). I like him for having given Jean de Brienne a run for his money, after Jean landed in Constantinople as the papal candidate for Emperor, effectively as regent for Baldwin I. ...I need this example especially for how much of the legends are struck up. ...Maybe the lower mintage, compared to the halcyon days of the 12th century, helped to stabilize the minting practices, on that mundane a level. </p><p>...With western European medieval as my primary frame of reference, that's just a guess. It looks as if whoever struck this <i>wasn't</i> so pressured, and/or hung over, that he wasn't invested in what the end product would look like.[ATTACH=full]1216928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 5229418, member: 110504"]Wow, [USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER], that's pretty amazing, for a tetarteron as late as that. If I had a hat, it would be off to you. Consider the source, but, Congratulations!!! Here's the only one (of mmmMaybe three, all scyphat trachea) that's easy to find the .jpg for. As you will know, this is of John, nearer the fall of Constantinople (...to, well, Those People). I like him for having given Jean de Brienne a run for his money, after Jean landed in Constantinople as the papal candidate for Emperor, effectively as regent for Baldwin I. ...I need this example especially for how much of the legends are struck up. ...Maybe the lower mintage, compared to the halcyon days of the 12th century, helped to stabilize the minting practices, on that mundane a level. ...With western European medieval as my primary frame of reference, that's just a guess. It looks as if whoever struck this [I]wasn't[/I] so pressured, and/or hung over, that he wasn't invested in what the end product would look like.[ATTACH=full]1216928[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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