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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3144205, member: 84744"]Fair enough... let me know if you find any! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The oars/figurehead is an excellent hypothesis to try to disprove. One strike against it comes from the examples you use: they're both much earlier coins. If you could show me oars and a figurehead from the late fifth or early sixth century, that would cause more trouble. Otherwise, I would say the the best explanation would still be the thing that the depiction most resembles: a snake. Let me ask you: given the the quality of the rest of the engraving on the Naville example and coin A, do you genuinely think that the oars/figurehead hypothesis is more likely?</p><p><br /></p><p>In any case, I'm very grateful for your feedback. Anyone reading this should bet on you rather than me, since you are certainly more of an expert in this territory![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 3144205, member: 84744"]Fair enough... let me know if you find any! :) The oars/figurehead is an excellent hypothesis to try to disprove. One strike against it comes from the examples you use: they're both much earlier coins. If you could show me oars and a figurehead from the late fifth or early sixth century, that would cause more trouble. Otherwise, I would say the the best explanation would still be the thing that the depiction most resembles: a snake. Let me ask you: given the the quality of the rest of the engraving on the Naville example and coin A, do you genuinely think that the oars/figurehead hypothesis is more likely? In any case, I'm very grateful for your feedback. Anyone reading this should bet on you rather than me, since you are certainly more of an expert in this territory![/QUOTE]
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