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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1671579, member: 19463&quot;]This posting is NOT to solicit coins made to be oddly shaped like the Olbia dolphins but regular round format coins that were a bit different than usual.&nbsp; King of this genre is the &#039;pig trotter&#039; Nemausis in the British museum.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/b/bronze_coin_with_pig_trotter.aspx" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/b/bronze_coin_with_pig_trotter.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/cm/b/bronze_coin_with_pig_trotter.aspx</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I have nothing approaching that level but offer a few I am happy to own.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]248643.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>Persian sigloi are supposed to be oval so this one is not unusual in that was but it was struck with the flan crosswise on the dies making the design not fit the flan.&nbsp; This oddity probably explains why so many bankers felt the need to test the coin but it is good silver and official style so it must have been just an accident.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]248644.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p>This stater from Arados, Phoenicia,&nbsp; made the most of its very oval flan.&nbsp; Somehow both the obverse head and the reverse galley fit on the flan with a good strike of the legend above the galley.&nbsp; A round flan would be much less likely to contain all these important parts as well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]248645.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This Widow&#039;s Mite clearly shows the round dies but the flan is a cut rectangle.&nbsp; In fact these crude coins come in all sorts of odd shapes but this is the largest square I have seen.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Who has oddly shaped coins that were supposed to be round?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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