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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4644657, member: 110350&quot;]Please pardon this brief digression from the game for a comment on a coin posted earlier today:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=86498]@Terence Cheesman[/USER], your very beautiful coin has the same catalog numbers that my example supposedly has, so if the seller&#039;s description of my coin is correct, I now know what mine might look like if so much of the design weren&#039;t off the flan (leaving aside the fact that yours is also considerably less worn)! </p><p><br /></p><p>Islands of Caria, Rhodos, Rhodes, AR Didrachm, ca. 340-316 BCE. Obv. Head of Helios facing slightly right, hair parted in center and swept to either side / Rev. Rose with bud to right and grape bunch to left [<i>stem connecting bud to rose on right is off flan, as is “E” beneath grape bunch on left</i>], POΔION [RODION] above, all within incuse square. Ashton 98 [Ashton, R., &quot;The Coinage of Rhodes 408-c.190 BC&quot; in <i>Money and its Uses in the Ancient Greek World</i> (Oxford, 2001), pp. 79 - 115, pls. 6.1 - 6.6.], HGC 6, 1433 [Hoover, Oliver D., <i>Handbook of Coins of the Islands: Adriatic, Ionian, Thracian, Aegean, and Carpathian Seas (Excluding Crete and Cyprus), 6th to 1st Centuries BC</i>, <i>Vol 6</i> (Lancaster/London, 2010)].&nbsp; 16 mm., 6.55 g., 12 h.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1147704[/ATTACH] </p><p>If my seller was correct in identifying my coin, I guess this is what happens when you try to strike a coin on a 16 mm. flan with a 27 mm. die.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, please excuse the interruption, and I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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