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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2684268, member: 19463"]When looking for these, I consider three things important. The rest of you can have the unworn coins. I want coins that show a bold strike of Medusa's headless body with gushing blood, a clear strike of the cutting tool in Perseus' hand and Perseus' head on flan. There should be a space right of the corpse to proove it is headless and no just off flan, Of the coins shown, TIF's first and Steve's second are winners. 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. Most seen are from Amisos so your Sinope carries added interest but I'm not sure how many people really 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. The Sinope is better but the body is underweight and anemic (or is it a sign of low blood pressure?). 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. Not all coins left the mint as we might have preferred.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2684268, member: 19463"]When looking for these, I consider three things important. The rest of you can have the unworn coins. I want coins that show a bold strike of Medusa's headless body with gushing blood, a clear strike of the cutting tool in Perseus' hand and Perseus' head on flan. There should be a space right of the corpse to proove it is headless and no just off flan, Of the coins shown, TIF's first and Steve's second are winners. 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. Most seen are from Amisos so your Sinope carries added interest but I'm not sure how many people really care where their coin was from as long as it has the scene shown clearly. My Amisos is a typically poor example with weak body but decent obverse with Pegasus. The Sinope is better but the body is underweight and anemic (or is it a sign of low blood pressure?). The search continues. [ATTACH=full]600657[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]600658[/ATTACH] 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. Not all coins left the mint as we might have preferred.[/QUOTE]
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