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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2323126, member: 42773&quot;]I recently acquired this coin which is similar to Doug&#039;s second example except the Capricorn is going left. (Do we have an obverse die match? It looks possible, but it&#039;s difficult to say as my coin is more worn.) The surfaces are finely porous, but that didn&#039;t bother me because of the respectable detail...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]469919[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Nobody has mentioned the most interesting aspect of these coins, and that is the use of perspective, which occurs rarely on ancient designs. The grove of trees enclosed by the peribolos angles outward toward the bottom of the coin. If you didn&#039;t know what was going on, the reverse design might appear to depict a two-dimensional structure, when it is in fact meant to suggest three dimensions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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