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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3829309, member: 56859&quot;]Well well well... <i>this</i> is interesting <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect our volunteers and/or host are getting crafty.&nbsp; The images of this coin may have been purposefully shot out of focus or otherwise made lower resolution and the background is photoshopped from a non-black original.&nbsp; Perhaps the originally planned contest images were even changed after the whole thing started when Curtis realized many of us were depending on image style for assignment of ownership.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s from either Doug or Curtis.&nbsp; The type and this exact coin would not be out of place in the collection of either of them (or Valentinian).&nbsp; So who to pick?&nbsp; Hmm.&nbsp; The photo trickery or editing trickery would be child&#039;s play for either of them.&nbsp; Without knowing what the fifth entry will be, it&#039;s a coin toss.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="https://media0.giphy.com/media/AsCtFiHkx0DW8/giphy.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><b>The toss goes to [USER=83845]@Curtisimo[/USER] <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I have no quadrans to share but here&#039;s something iconographically related:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fdw5431fsdz7sy.cloudfront.net%2Fmedia%2Fimg%2Fauction_lots%2F407%2F397989.l.jpg&amp;hash=6c774debed34c0f1824c99b79ab8dd1a" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>IONIA, Magnesia ad Maeandrum, c. 4th century BCE, AE8. 0.95g, 8.2mm. Rare.</p><p>O: Laureate head of Apollo left.</p><p>R: M-A, cuirass.</p><p>SNG Kayhan 393.</p><p>(images from AMCC)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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