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<p>[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2217135, member: 57364"]Intersting coin. I don't know much about this category.</p><p>I think i recognize a standing bird on your left picture and the crab on the right picture. I see part of the crab's legs in the periphery. Seems to me that this side is upside down based on the position of the crab. The swirl which is at the top i believe is usually at the bottom</p><p>And then the most apparent detail: somebody later put a countermark of a face looking right over the crab. This also flattened the opposite side of the bird somewhat. I guess there is some story connected to the countermark, which i do not know.</p><p>One last detail: is also see some round dots on the bird's side. The feeling i have is that these do not immediately fit in the design here.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="THCoins, post: 2217135, member: 57364"]Intersting coin. I don't know much about this category. I think i recognize a standing bird on your left picture and the crab on the right picture. I see part of the crab's legs in the periphery. Seems to me that this side is upside down based on the position of the crab. The swirl which is at the top i believe is usually at the bottom And then the most apparent detail: somebody later put a countermark of a face looking right over the crab. This also flattened the opposite side of the bird somewhat. I guess there is some story connected to the countermark, which i do not know. One last detail: is also see some round dots on the bird's side. The feeling i have is that these do not immediately fit in the design here.[/QUOTE]
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