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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 7442507, member: 97383&quot;]Tejas, That&#039;s a great find <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />! The floppy ears of the 8 leg creature make it look more like a donkey <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. We can see the humorous side of these coins today, however, I&#039;m sure that was not the intention of the artist-engraver. The inscriptions are humorous too. Apparently the engraver didn&#039;t have many different letters in his tool kit so he used what letters he did have repetitiously to increase the length of the inscriptions. The coin pictured below is my favorite Germanic imitation. The engraver struggled with the portrait but did an excellent job with the reverse. The reverse on this coin is as good as most of the solidi of Zeno I&#039;ve seen from the Constantinople Mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1291272[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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