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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2746012, member: 56859&quot;]Given the curved sides, &quot;waist&quot; at the bottom, and foot I&#039;d call it a vase.&nbsp; Modiuses (modii?) seem to have straight sides.&nbsp; As you probably know, the vase obol, per Emmett, was struck only in year 10 as was your coin.&nbsp; Emmett 1786.10, R5.&nbsp; Beautiful coin!!</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the modius is between torches (like the CNG obol).&nbsp; Your vase is not between torches.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>All 80 of the coins in this lot have the usual arrangement:&nbsp; obverse on the convex side, reverse on the flat side.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[shrug]&nbsp; The flans were simply upside down when the coins were struck?</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you thinking that it isn&#039;t a coincidence since the CNG coin (A-Pi obol with modius reverse) was also struck on an upside-down flan?&nbsp; I think I&#039;d one more than N=2 to draw any conclusions <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; Have you seen many others?&nbsp; Should we start checking the orientation of all A-Pi obols?&nbsp; (My only two A-Pi obols, a sphinx and a hawk) have the usual flan orientation.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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