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<p>[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 8106392, member: 115909"]Yeah I don't think they had very detailed portraits even right when they were made. My guess is people didn't care about how pretty the image was as long as it had the correct amount of precious metals.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's also important to remember how tiny these coins are. Getting ANY kind of detail in an image on such a tiny coin would've been an immense challenge in the 7th century BC. I imagine a Ch VF full stater coin would have much more detail just due to having a larger flan to put details on.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gam3rBlake, post: 8106392, member: 115909"]Yeah I don't think they had very detailed portraits even right when they were made. My guess is people didn't care about how pretty the image was as long as it had the correct amount of precious metals. It's also important to remember how tiny these coins are. Getting ANY kind of detail in an image on such a tiny coin would've been an immense challenge in the 7th century BC. I imagine a Ch VF full stater coin would have much more detail just due to having a larger flan to put details on.[/QUOTE]
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