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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaCointessa, post: 7886198, member: 87186&quot;]Great article as always [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER].</p><p><br /></p><p>Of the FH I have, (and I have quite a few), these are my favorites. One of these days I will get back to tidying them; but, for me, for now, they are clean enough. My next step is to definitively attribute them. When tidying crusty ancients I purchased a year or so back, I came across the bottom three coins below.</p><p><br /></p><p>The top FH is a coin I found in a group of uncleaned coins [USER=5454]@Victor[/USER] Clark generously sent to me a few years ago. I only cleaned it enough to generally identify it. I like it very much. I do not think I ever shared this one with fellow CTers before. Thanks again, Victor.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find the green and slightly rose patinas and the delta (I suppose that is a delta) on the obverse of the second coin attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the third coin, it looks like the horseman is hunched over and completely facing away from the swordsman. Definitely not reaching and looking back. I am not sure I ever saw one like this before. (but that is not saying much! :-D) I love when coins turn jet black like this.</p><p>Edited to add:&nbsp; Thanks Doug. So now I have seen another with hunched forward horseman. </p><p><br /></p><p>I dig the style and patina of the bottom FH. Looks like the horseman is wearing Korean headgear from the Josean period:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse2.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.ud2jLIgfkH4k0yuYPrqvCAHaEx%26pid%3DApi&amp;f=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Please excuse that these coins are not attributed.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1360364[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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