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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hotwheelsearl, post: 6445615, member: 75143&quot;]FHs are amazing. The quality, size, and artistry for the price is often unparalleled.</p><p><br /></p><p>My #1 coin of 2020 is this <i>superb </i>Gallus. The soldier&#039;s head is sort of gone, but I&#039;ll take a Michelin-man lobster-clawed dying barbarian anyday. The detail on the barbarian is really quite amazing. I also like the sheath on the solderis&#039; side, if that&#039;s what it even is.</p><p>Gallus also looks like the guy you old timers probably saw on college campuses back in the 70s.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256073[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Constantius II are plenty cheap; however I have yet to get a really nice one. This is probably my best example. Rather uninspired overall, with nothing too impressive. I like the exagerrated arrow-point on the soldier&#039;s spear, though.[ATTACH=full]1256074[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This one is either a really poorly made official coin, or a rather well made imitation. It is an AE2 coin squished on an AE3 flan. It is missing almost all of the legends but the style tends to point towards C-II.</p><p>If this was full size, it would have looked rather lovely with great details and dynamism on the soldier and possibly the barbarian.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin also was <i>heavily </i>encrusted, almost to the point of invisibility before I tossed it into some magic juice and restored the &quot;felicitas temporum&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256075[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Last one for today is an <i>actual</i> AE3 FH. Nothing special here, but the soldier does have a bit of something in the middle of the shield (<i>what the heck is that called again</i>) that isn&#039;t present on the other shields above. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1256076[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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