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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7963361, member: 19463"]I trust everyone noted that the relief Ryro posted shows the coin dispenser correctly with recesses to accept coins rather than raised dots as shown on coins. It would have been a lot harder to cut dies to show recesses so I understand what they did but it may have contributed to the earlier error calling the thing an abacus. We need to see one being dipped into a bucket of coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Severus Alexander also has a reverse showing coins pouring from the cornucopia.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380531[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Commodus showed the whole scene on this as. If the coin were mint state, you would see the citizen holding out the fold of his toga.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1380532[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7963361, member: 19463"]I trust everyone noted that the relief Ryro posted shows the coin dispenser correctly with recesses to accept coins rather than raised dots as shown on coins. It would have been a lot harder to cut dies to show recesses so I understand what they did but it may have contributed to the earlier error calling the thing an abacus. We need to see one being dipped into a bucket of coins. Severus Alexander also has a reverse showing coins pouring from the cornucopia. [ATTACH=full]1380531[/ATTACH] Commodus showed the whole scene on this as. If the coin were mint state, you would see the citizen holding out the fold of his toga. [ATTACH=full]1380532[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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