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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2784769, member: 19463&quot;]Nice coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>Just for comparison:&nbsp; Mine has a horn and matching centering losing most of the LK. If you compare our coins to LKZ&#039;s with opposite centering, you can detect a bit of those letters but such traces are easily overlooked.&nbsp; &nbsp; Emmett 2568 lists my coin as Zeus Ammon <u>head</u> right while your 2563 is given as a <u>bust</u> recognizing a bit of fabric showing at the very bottom of your coin under the chin.&nbsp; My Ammon suffers from small flan editing of the distinctive solar disk above the head leaving only a part of the bottom of the full circle.&nbsp; These are common coins so we can compare to other specimens.&nbsp; There are many less common types where we may not know what was there.&nbsp; If you collect this series, you will have to decide whether you look at the faults like missing details or the strengths like a good head.&nbsp; Those requiring MS 5/5 coins need to collect someting else. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]645128[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another comparison coin is this bust of Nilus (shirtless as appropriate for a swimmer) with all three letters of the LKS date.&nbsp; The coin was struck harder so the flan spread out more fully probably contributing to the crack that slants through the flan.&nbsp; Flan preparation was not a strong point of this mint and era.&nbsp; I feel lucky to have these coins - warts and all. Waiting for perfect examples may get quite tedious. Search the usual places for any of these bust types and see how many are perfect.&nbsp; I am happy there are so many perfection collectors who don&#039;t compete for the coins of this level (even if they are the best available). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]645130[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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