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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7624292, member: 99456"]Ann Johnston revised Noe's classification of flans ("spread and thick flan") into three:</p><p>"spread" (28-30mm)</p><p>"medium" (24-25mm)</p><p>"dumpy" (16-20mm)</p><p><br /></p><p>While I also have a hard time seeing a "mule’s head" in your coin - here is another <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276" rel="nofollow">Metapontum obol</a> that is also labelled "mule’s head" with similar (maybe even same die?) obverse to yours:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311962[/ATTACH]</p><p>and a "mule’s head" nicely executed on a Stater (<a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962" rel="nofollow">231 from Noe</a>)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1311960[/ATTACH]</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Ref:</b></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan4380" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan4380" rel="nofollow">Coinage of Metapontum</a> by Ann Johnston, 1990</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962" rel="nofollow">Coinage of Metapontum</a>, Part 1 by Sydney Noe, 1927</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=44" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=44" rel="nofollow">Portraits of Greek Coinage - Metapontum</a>, Robin Eaglen, Spink</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276" rel="nofollow">ACSearch</a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7624292, member: 99456"]Ann Johnston revised Noe's classification of flans ("spread and thick flan") into three: "spread" (28-30mm) "medium" (24-25mm) "dumpy" (16-20mm) While I also have a hard time seeing a "mule’s head" in your coin - here is another [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276']Metapontum obol[/URL] that is also labelled "mule’s head" with similar (maybe even same die?) obverse to yours: [ATTACH=full]1311962[/ATTACH] and a "mule’s head" nicely executed on a Stater ([URL='http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962']231 from Noe[/URL]) [ATTACH=full]1311960[/ATTACH] [B] Ref:[/B] [SIZE=4][URL='http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan4380']Coinage of Metapontum[/URL] by Ann Johnston, 1990 [URL='http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary/ark:/53695/nnan129962']Coinage of Metapontum[/URL], Part 1 by Sydney Noe, 1927 [URL='https://www.spink.com/media/view?id=44']Portraits of Greek Coinage - Metapontum[/URL], Robin Eaglen, Spink [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7015276']ACSearch[/URL][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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