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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 4888005, member: 75525"]Congrats and thanks for sharing [USER=36818]@benhur767[/USER] !</p><p>I have a coin from the Three Graces book - </p><p>[ATTACH]1179505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179507[/ATTACH] </p><p>I also have one that is double interesting - overstruck and chopped. It is in an article by Clive Stannard on <i>Chopped Neapolitan Bronze Coins.... </i>Mine is the lower right coin.</p><p><i>[ATTACH]1179508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179509[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179510[/ATTACH] </i></p><p>Going the other way, I recently discovered a blog post of mine was used to describe a coin in a CNG auction! </p><blockquote><p>CNG E 443, lot 460, 1/05/2019, Selections from the Andrew McCabe Collection, L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi...</p><p>Note the position of the anchor on the obverse, seemingly upside down, but with a ring at the pointed end. Gene McPherson (at <a href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/01/anchors-on-ancient-coins-or-which-way.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/01/anchors-on-ancient-coins-or-which-way.html" rel="nofollow">http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/01/anchors-on-ancient-coins-or-which-way.html</a>) has made an intriguing suggestion on anchor orientation: that Roman anchors with a ring at the pointed end were intended to be used in either direction and are shown in this position on the coins to indicate that the picture is of a bi-directional anchor. Presumably, seafarers knew well which anchor direction worked best in which sea and floor conditions. Nowadays, there's only one way up for an anchor, so we may have lost an important body of knowledge. [Andrew McCabe]</p></blockquote><p>[ATTACH=full]1179519[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 4888005, member: 75525"]Congrats and thanks for sharing [USER=36818]@benhur767[/USER] ! I have a coin from the Three Graces book - [ATTACH]1179505[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179506[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179507[/ATTACH] I also have one that is double interesting - overstruck and chopped. It is in an article by Clive Stannard on [I]Chopped Neapolitan Bronze Coins.... [/I]Mine is the lower right coin. [I][ATTACH]1179508[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179509[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]1179510[/ATTACH] [/I] Going the other way, I recently discovered a blog post of mine was used to describe a coin in a CNG auction! [INDENT]CNG E 443, lot 460, 1/05/2019, Selections from the Andrew McCabe Collection, L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi... Note the position of the anchor on the obverse, seemingly upside down, but with a ring at the pointed end. Gene McPherson (at [URL]http://rrdenarius.blogspot.com/2018/01/anchors-on-ancient-coins-or-which-way.html[/URL]) has made an intriguing suggestion on anchor orientation: that Roman anchors with a ring at the pointed end were intended to be used in either direction and are shown in this position on the coins to indicate that the picture is of a bi-directional anchor. Presumably, seafarers knew well which anchor direction worked best in which sea and floor conditions. Nowadays, there's only one way up for an anchor, so we may have lost an important body of knowledge. [Andrew McCabe][/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1179519[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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