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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 2790685, member: 51347&quot;][USER=57495]@zumbly[/USER] :&nbsp; <i><span style="color: #660000">&quot;One other interesting feature shows up between 1 and 2 o&#039; clock on the reverse - a distinctively-shaped channel that allowed molten metal to run into the mould hollow when the blank was made. Subsequent bronze issues of Pherai seem to have done away with this type of flan manufacture and they&#039;re all better produced, if to my mind less interesting. While I do like the devices used here (who doesn&#039;t like a facing portrait and a lion head fountain!), of even greater appeal to me is the clear evidence of the mint workers struggling, experimenting, and only partially succeeding in the production of the coin. &quot;</span></i></p><p><br /></p><p>However, I do have some cool early flan features:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648109[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily Syracuse AE 12-10mm 1.4g Female Hd - Octopus BMC 249</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648111[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sicily Syracuse Timoleon Third Deocracy 344-317 BCE AE Hemidrachm Zeus Thundrbolt</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648112[/ATTACH]</p><p>Etruria or Umbria Aes Grave 3rd C BCE Sextans 23mm 25-15g Club-2 Dots HN 54 Vecchi-Th 172</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]648113[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]648116[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]648115[/ATTACH]</p><p>RR AE Aes Grave Sextans 270 BCE 37mm 55-28g Dioscuri R and L[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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