Rosette folio detail and cosmological element display
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I wonder if the sine wave with dots may have originated as a very stylized vine, for example used as a border decoration. I'm not claiming any connection whatsoever to the following coin, but it gave me the idea:

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Not sure why that would matter, but I like to think about where these kinds of customs came from
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RE: Rosette folio detail and cosmological element display - by Koen G - 26-01-2017, 09:48 PM

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