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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2684268, member: 19463&quot;]When looking for these, I consider three things important.&nbsp; The rest of you can have the unworn coins.&nbsp; I want coins that show a bold strike of Medusa&#039;s headless body with gushing blood, a clear strike of the cutting tool in Perseus&#039; hand and Perseus&#039; head on flan.&nbsp; There should be a space right of the corpse to proove it is headless and no just off flan, Of the coins shown, TIF&#039;s first and Steve&#039;s second are winners.&nbsp; In the best of all possible worlds, I would also ask for facial features on the severed head but that is not something you see on one coin in a thousand or so.&nbsp;&nbsp; Most seen are from Amisos so your Sinope carries added interest but I&#039;m not sure how many people really&nbsp; care where their coin was from as long as it has the scene shown clearly.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Amisos is a typically poor example with weak body but decent obverse with Pegasus.&nbsp; The Sinope is better but the body is underweight and anemic (or is it a sign of low blood pressure?).&nbsp; The search continues.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]600657[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]600658[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It strikes me that my requirements here are the ancient equivalent of US collectors who want Standing Liberty Quarters with full heads and Jefferson Nickels with full steps.&nbsp; Not all coins left the mint as we might have preferred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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