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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2891156, member: 84744"]Yes, "small crackling crack" is not very helpful. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>We should have a thread on some of the funnier manglings of coin descriptions we've received from google translate. (The German ones seem particularly prone.) One of my favourite recent ones was my Rhodes didrachm which featured "Head of Helios with beam rim." </p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin had a "depressed square." <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://orig00.deviantart.net/8a00/f/2011/034/7/0/depressed_square_by_fecama-d38pv2q.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>(<i>Incuse</i> square, of course. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Save 'em up, folks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2891156, member: 84744"]Yes, "small crackling crack" is not very helpful. :woot: We should have a thread on some of the funnier manglings of coin descriptions we've received from google translate. (The German ones seem particularly prone.) One of my favourite recent ones was my Rhodes didrachm which featured "Head of Helios with beam rim." Another coin had a "depressed square." o_O [IMG]https://orig00.deviantart.net/8a00/f/2011/034/7/0/depressed_square_by_fecama-d38pv2q.png[/IMG] ([I]Incuse[/I] square, of course. :smuggrin:) Save 'em up, folks![/QUOTE]
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