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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8251492, member: 19463&quot;]An unfortunate characteristic of coins of the Huns is often the poorly struck reverses.&nbsp; Some types are lucky to have a reverse.&nbsp; They seem to come in quite a variety of silver content but I have no knowledge of the coins other than they had great taste in which part of the bull to put on their heads (think Elagabalus).&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453864[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1453865[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1453866[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>When it comes to misshapen heads and unstruck reverses, it is hard to beat the Alchon Huns.&nbsp; The dealer that had it was not a friend of mine but thought it was ugly and defective.&nbsp; I rather liked it so I bought it anyway.&nbsp; This was about the time I was getting bored with not finding coins in my specialties and started looking at stranger things. </p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchon_Huns" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchon_Huns" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchon_Huns</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453867[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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