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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3983639, member: 44316&quot;]A wonderful coin! Not only is it very rare, it is very remarkable!&nbsp; I wonder if the artistic convention was to show two distinct things (one horse and one serpent) crowded next to each other, or if that really was a horse with a serpent riding it, as BMC says and it looks like. Price and Trell, in <i>Coins and Their Cities</i>, (a very interesting book and well-illustrated book about provincial architectural types) mention the convention &quot;to place above what actually stood behind&quot; [p. 24].</p><p><br /></p><p>The other coins from Philadelphia illustrated in BMC don&#039;t show horses and don&#039;t show snakes, so the type is hard to understand. Can anyone explain it?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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