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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2431257, member: 19463&quot;]I do see an appeal to the NAC coin&#039;s style on the Mercury.&nbsp; Overall I might agree with liking TIF&#039;s coin better but I like the NAC enough for that face that I can understand someone paying more.&nbsp; Over 5x more, no.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>May I point out that TIF is also an acronym for &quot;This Is Frustrating&quot; and will coint out that that meaning is often accompanied in her posts by mention of being Clioed. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll pick as a remotely related tack-a-long a more obvious terminal bust.&nbsp; The idea of a term is to support a head without making an effort to replicate shoulders.&nbsp; The post like extension on TIF&#039;s Mercury and my Jupiter for Pompey have a square peg or something which I read as normal for terms but can not explain properly. Part of me wants to see the possibility of such a bust being combined with a body in another medium.&nbsp; Terms used as posts are appropriate with head of Hermes/Mercury who was the god of boundaries but there are enough other persons on terms that I&#039;m failing to understand that link. I know who to ask.</p><p><br /></p><p>Volodya&#039;s coin shows a different take on the term with the head expanded to a half length bust but still TERMinating in a post. Cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]505218[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course my Pompey is a fourree ex Grant Edwards collection (I got a lot of his fourrees because demand for them in 1990 was low).&nbsp; Genuine solid ones of this style are not cheap but there are currently many coins on the market from dies with no stylistic relation to mine or the normal, solid coins.&nbsp; Some dealers are marketing them as barbarous or a branch mint but claim they are ancient.&nbsp; I do not accept them as any older than I am.&nbsp; Hopefully time will tell.&nbsp; If you buy a Pompey term, buy from a dealer with a lifetime guarantee.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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