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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1939975, member: 19463&quot;]You have the rare south end of a northbound turtle variety.&nbsp; You have three of the six important appendages but most people prefer the other three.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll show three.</p><p><br /></p><p>An earlier stater with claws on the feet and head turned so you can see the bill.&nbsp; I love these early, baroque shaped ones. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]336187[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This stater has little going for it but a major die cud below the turtle.&nbsp; I bought it from CNG in 1998 when they considered it too junky to put in a sale but I like die breaks this big.&nbsp;&nbsp; It is also clawed and may be a die duplicate of this one:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1657671" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1657671" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1657671</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]336188[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Last is my little obol.&nbsp; I know everyone likes staters better but the high relief of this little guy appealed to me so he followed me home.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]336189[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I regret being a cheapskate back in the late 80&#039;s when I almost bought a stater that I considered overpriced at $40.&nbsp; It was oval about four times as long as it was wide and had the head and just a bit of one foot on the flan (almost no body).&nbsp; The seller thought he had priced it down enough to allow for the lack of centering but I wanted more for less so did not get it.&nbsp; Since then I have seen many worse turtles but never one that far off center.&nbsp; I thought it showed the first sea creature first crawling onto dry land.&nbsp; I wonder how has it now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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