The king's portraits on these coins are absolutely ghastly! One really has to wonder why anyone involved in the production of these coins (including the king himself!) considered that to be in any way acceptable portraiture. Were the best die engravers in 14th century England so ignorant or incompetent that they didn't know, for example, how to craft highly realistic and flattering portraits like Greek or Roman coins from 1000 years earlier??? (I'm thinking here of the wonderful work of the die engravers of Ptolemaic Egypt) I don't get it; Gothic stone-carved sculpture of this era was very realistic. And if one doesn't have the level of quality control necessary to portray the king as something other than a clown or vampire, just use a symbolic design instead. For being that large diameter but having so little mass, these coins must be quite thin compared to modern coins.
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Sweet! I have a Edward silver penny in my collection I was gifted from a fellow detectorest! Thanks for sharing.
Very cool!
Amazing coin
beautiful
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Wow the history behind them 😮 I don’t have anything that old noble is beautiful I don’t have anything that old maybe in time to come ⚓️🧲👍😊
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Definitely amazing coins
The king's portraits on these coins are absolutely ghastly! One really has to wonder why anyone involved in the production of these coins (including the king himself!) considered that to be in any way acceptable portraiture.
Were the best die engravers in 14th century England so ignorant or incompetent that they didn't know, for example, how to craft highly realistic and flattering portraits like Greek or Roman coins from 1000 years earlier??? (I'm thinking here of the wonderful work of the die engravers of Ptolemaic Egypt) I don't get it; Gothic stone-carved sculpture of this era was very realistic.
And if one doesn't have the level of quality control necessary to portray the king as something other than a clown or vampire, just use a symbolic design instead.
For being that large diameter but having so little mass, these coins must be quite thin compared to modern coins.
I always thought the same about the portraiture on these medieval coins
Definitely a historic oddity
Many good points! Wondering the same things myself.