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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7678950, member: 110504"]Oh, Wow, [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], that hemidrachm, of the high water mark of the Attic series, is Brilliant. ...If I had money for an example of the period, this kind of denomination (am I making it up, or has Somebody posted a hemiobol over the last week or two?) is where I would go first.</p><p>Regarding the whole issue, I have to like the contrast between the still 'archaic' elements of the engraving, and how it converges with the earlier phases of Classical sculpture. You can see a similar kind of lag in the lettering on medieval European coins, relative to manuscripts. Symptomizing the attendant contrasts between the two technologies ...at one point or another.</p><p>...I just need All of it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7678950, member: 110504"]Oh, Wow, [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER], that hemidrachm, of the high water mark of the Attic series, is Brilliant. ...If I had money for an example of the period, this kind of denomination (am I making it up, or has Somebody posted a hemiobol over the last week or two?) is where I would go first. Regarding the whole issue, I have to like the contrast between the still 'archaic' elements of the engraving, and how it converges with the earlier phases of Classical sculpture. You can see a similar kind of lag in the lettering on medieval European coins, relative to manuscripts. Symptomizing the attendant contrasts between the two technologies ...at one point or another. ...I just need All of it.[/QUOTE]
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