I like the early Anglo Saxon coins the most... i'm still kicking myself for not buying the Eadwig when i had the chance (well it was too expensive for me but i could have reserved it and then i would have been able to buy it over a slightly longer period with no problems at all!)
It's at times like this when i think my collection has been dwarfed. But hey i see no Stephen so that's reassuring!
I'm getting an Henry VI to fill in that monarch vacancy over the next few weeks, then i've got a dealer looking for a nice Edward VI for my collection.
Gotta upgrade my Phillip/Mary and my Elizabeth I coins too.
I think i might put my Early Milled sixpence collection on hold.
I got a question on these. How come they did not have any better artist to make their dies? I have seen ancients with better craftmanship than most of the medievel Hammered stuff. Or was it their technology that held them back? Did their process limit their designs?
The designs delined after the fall of Rome as the Dark Age begins.
Basically simplistically put when Rome finally fell it was sacked by Vandals and Goths who had a lesser understanding of technology, they couldn't generally read, they burnt books and destroyed many of the Roman technology and achievements.
This was followed by several centuries of decline and the beginning in the 700s progress began to be made back towards what it had been but this progress was slow because of divisions throught each countries (England was divided into kingdoms again), the Romans had been a unifying factor. So the kingdoms fought each other... it took till the 900s to properly unify England, then there were Viking invaders, followed by Danes, followed by Normans... so until 1100 or so technology had been greatly hindered and progressed very slowly. It can be argued that the technology mastered and implememented by the Romans was not reached again until the Industrial revolution.
Reasons why the technology of the Romans failed to linger on after the fall of the Romans can perhaps be traced in the fact that Italy and Greece had slowly progressed towars that advanced state whilst many other areas in Europe were still fighting each other in clans and tribes.
The Roman Empire imposed these technological advancements upon the native populations of those countries and although the native population may have made use of them they did not fully understand them, when the Romans went the baths they had built at Bath continued in use in England but the Britons lacked the technological knowledge to maintain them so they gradually fell into disuse.
I guess it's much the same with the coinage, it was useful and they made use of it but when the Romans had left and stop supplying the goods to make the dies and then to make the coins there's not much that the moneyors could do.
Several of them do look like they've been hit with hammers. It certainly looks like Python has outdone me on this one... i'm really gonna have to spend some time doing upgrades here.
Python, you've got a fantastic collection; I don't mind repeating myself here.
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I like the early Anglo Saxon coins the most... i'm still kicking myself for not buying the Eadwig when i had the chance (well it was too expensive for me but i could have reserved it and then i would have been able to buy it over a slightly longer period with no problems at all!)
It's at times like this when i think my collection has been dwarfed. But hey i see no Stephen so that's reassuring!
I'm getting an Henry VI to fill in that monarch vacancy over the next few weeks, then i've got a dealer looking for a nice Edward VI for my collection.
Gotta upgrade my Phillip/Mary and my Elizabeth I coins too.
I think i might put my Early Milled sixpence collection on hold.
I got a question on these. How come they did not have any better artist to make their dies? I have seen ancients with better craftmanship than most of the medievel Hammered stuff. Or was it their technology that held them back? Did their process limit their designs?
09/07/2006
Basically simplistically put when Rome finally fell it was sacked by Vandals and Goths who had a lesser understanding of technology, they couldn't generally read, they burnt books and destroyed many of the Roman technology and achievements.
This was followed by several centuries of decline and the beginning in the 700s progress began to be made back towards what it had been but this progress was slow because of divisions throught each countries (England was divided into kingdoms again), the Romans had been a unifying factor. So the kingdoms fought each other... it took till the 900s to properly unify England, then there were Viking invaders, followed by Danes, followed by Normans... so until 1100 or so technology had been greatly hindered and progressed very slowly. It can be argued that the technology mastered and implememented by the Romans was not reached again until the Industrial revolution.
Reasons why the technology of the Romans failed to linger on after the fall of the Romans can perhaps be traced in the fact that Italy and Greece had slowly progressed towars that advanced state whilst many other areas in Europe were still fighting each other in clans and tribes.
The Roman Empire imposed these technological advancements upon the native populations of those countries and although the native population may have made use of them they did not fully understand them, when the Romans went the baths they had built at Bath continued in use in England but the Britons lacked the technological knowledge to maintain them so they gradually fell into disuse.
I guess it's much the same with the coinage, it was useful and they made use of it but when the Romans had left and stop supplying the goods to make the dies and then to make the coins there's not much that the moneyors could do.
So they made do with whatever they could find.
That's very very general, as it's not my area.
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Several of them do look like they've been hit with hammers. It certainly looks like Python has outdone me on this one... i'm really gonna have to spend some time doing upgrades here.
Okay alot of time!
Great coins Brett!
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Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for the comments everyone.
<< <i>Sylvestius, that's a very impressive collection. I really like that Stephen penny, one of the best I've seen.
Thanks for the comments everyone.
Well when i get an upgrade on the Stephen, or just another Stephen i'll have to trade you for a William I!
That's if i can bring myself to ever part with a Stephen coin.
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<< <i>Sylvestius, that Henry VI Noble is fantastic!!
That is a great coin!
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