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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 8248645, member: 84744"]Adding a new piece of information to this discussion: brockages of the elephant side seem to be much more common than for the implements side, which argues in favour of the elephant being the obverse. (As [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] observed in <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-astounding-brockage.394009/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-astounding-brockage.394009/">a nice thread today</a>, obverse brockages are much more common than reverse brockages.) That's enough to push me over to Barry's opinion here. I'll have to revise my photo of the OP coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's still no way that serpent is a carnyx, though. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1452818[/ATTACH] </p><p>Philip I and II, from Tomis, Varbanov 5803[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 8248645, member: 84744"]Adding a new piece of information to this discussion: brockages of the elephant side seem to be much more common than for the implements side, which argues in favour of the elephant being the obverse. (As [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] observed in [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/an-astounding-brockage.394009/']a nice thread today[/URL], obverse brockages are much more common than reverse brockages.) That's enough to push me over to Barry's opinion here. I'll have to revise my photo of the OP coin. There's still no way that serpent is a carnyx, though. :p [ATTACH=full]1452818[/ATTACH] Philip I and II, from Tomis, Varbanov 5803[/QUOTE]
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