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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7655398, member: 110350&quot;]After seeing these wonderful examples of coins people think will be in their Top 10 lists, I can tell it&#039;s going to be a great year for a lot of you. Not that I&#039;m in any hurry for December/January to arrive again, but I do look forward to seeing more of everyone&#039;s favorite coins for the year, when the time comes.</p><p><br /></p><p>And thanks for posting all the great Nervas, even though I forgot to ask for them specifically. I wanted a Nerva clasped hands example for a long time; I didn&#039;t really care whether it was the one with the hands alone or the one with the legionary standard behind the hands, and would have been happy with a nice example of either.</p><p><br /></p><p>I must say that after seeing some other examples of my type, I remain very surprised that Mattingly &amp; Sydenham (RIC II), H.A. Seaby (RSC II), and David Sear (Sear RCV II) all state that the clasped hands are actually holding the standard.&nbsp; (I haven&#039;t checked to see what Cohen said.) As [USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER] said above, that&#039;s probably a physical impossibility -- unless the hands are larger than humanly possible!&nbsp; Did all these noted experts actually independently think they were seeing the hands holding the standard, or were they simply all copying whoever was the first to make that mistake? I guess it&#039;s a lesson that sometimes you have to trust your eyes, and your common sense, over what a catalog says, no matter how expert and famous the author![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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