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From: "Oliver D. Hoover" <oliver.hoover@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [Colonial Numismatics] Re: Byron's death's head token
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Byron,
In the middle ages and the early modern period people thought
differently about death than we do. Death, along with his boon
companions, starvation, and war regularly stalked the land and people
just accepted his presence as a natural fact of existence. Therefore,
illustrating a skull and bones on a funeral memento would not have
been seen as macabre. It seems so to us because we live in the modern
western world where death is often viewed as somehow unnatural to be
kept at arm's-length whenever possible.
Oliver
On 19-Apr-10, at 9:09 AM, Byron wrote:
> Thanks, Oliver, I wasn't absolutely certain, but thought I was at
> least close; an interesting memento, I'm not sure they'd be as
> appreciated as such if they were handed out today!
>
> Byron
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> --- In colonial-coins@yahoogroups.com, "Oliver D. Hoover"
> <oliver.hoover@...> wrote:
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>> Byron,
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>> Awesome coin. It looks like a good attribution to me. For what it's
>> worth, there are a bunch of these listed in the 1875 Revue Belge de
>> Numismatique. See http://www.numisbel.be/1875_6.pdf.
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>> Apparently they were distributed at funerals as mementos.
>>
>> Oliver
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>> On 18-Apr-10, at 5:44 PM, Byron Weston wrote:
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>>> All this talk about St. Pats made me wonder if I
>>> got this attribution right. I think it was made
>>> around the same time as the St Pats.
>>>
>>> Byron
>>
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