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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7903852, member: 10461"]For a moment, you see, I saw the bird (eagle) on the obverse*, and then another (very <i>dead</i>) bird (archaeopteryx) on the reverse, and thought it was a before-and-after thing! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie67" alt=":nailbiting:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Come to think of it, I suppose it IS a before-and-after thing, except the dead one came first, and the live one later. So it's all good.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3">*I'm calling the eagle side the obverse, despite the way the coin is holdered, since common convention usually holds that the side of the coin that names the country or bears its national symbol is the obverse. (I see that <a href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24751.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24751.html" rel="nofollow">Numista</a> agrees with me.)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 7903852, member: 10461"]For a moment, you see, I saw the bird (eagle) on the obverse*, and then another (very [I]dead[/I]) bird (archaeopteryx) on the reverse, and thought it was a before-and-after thing! :nailbiting: Come to think of it, I suppose it IS a before-and-after thing, except the dead one came first, and the live one later. So it's all good. [SIZE=3]*I'm calling the eagle side the obverse, despite the way the coin is holdered, since common convention usually holds that the side of the coin that names the country or bears its national symbol is the obverse. (I see that [URL='https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces24751.html']Numista[/URL] agrees with me.)[/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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