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<p>[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8254506, member: 26430"]Both great coins! I can't get enough of AE (or BI) Tetartera with the emperor wearing loros. Just such cool looking coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Funny you call it small, BenSi, since I was going to say one thing I like about both of yours are the big rectangular flans. [USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER] , I love how yours particularly shows the original shape of the "flan" (if it's even still called a flan when clearly cut from a sheet or strip of metal).</p><p><br /></p><p>I saw the Nomos one at auction and noticed what looked like an undertype on the reverse? Anyone know what's going on there? Doesn't seem like a die clash. At first I thought the obv of an old Tetarteron, traces of the loros? But circles not dots-in-squares, and I can't find anything that would fit...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8254506, member: 26430"]Both great coins! I can't get enough of AE (or BI) Tetartera with the emperor wearing loros. Just such cool looking coins. Funny you call it small, BenSi, since I was going to say one thing I like about both of yours are the big rectangular flans. [USER=74799]@Quant.Geek[/USER] , I love how yours particularly shows the original shape of the "flan" (if it's even still called a flan when clearly cut from a sheet or strip of metal). I saw the Nomos one at auction and noticed what looked like an undertype on the reverse? Anyone know what's going on there? Doesn't seem like a die clash. At first I thought the obv of an old Tetarteron, traces of the loros? But circles not dots-in-squares, and I can't find anything that would fit...[/QUOTE]
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