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<p>[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8011245, member: 96898"]This design is often understood as two confronted boars' heads creating the optical illusion of a single facing animal head:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1389802[/ATTACH] </p><p><font size="3">Lesbos, uncertain mint, AR 1/24 stater, ca. 500–450 BC. Obv: two boar’s heads facing, above, BPO. Rev: fourpartite incuse. 8 mm, 0.59g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen 288 var; HGC 6, 1071 var (unrecorded with this ethnic).</font></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next: Another coin from the island of Lesbos</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orielensis, post: 8011245, member: 96898"]This design is often understood as two confronted boars' heads creating the optical illusion of a single facing animal head: [ATTACH=full]1389802[/ATTACH] [SIZE=3]Lesbos, uncertain mint, AR 1/24 stater, ca. 500–450 BC. Obv: two boar’s heads facing, above, BPO. Rev: fourpartite incuse. 8 mm, 0.59g. Ref: SNG Copenhagen 288 var; HGC 6, 1071 var (unrecorded with this ethnic).[/SIZE] [B]Next: Another coin from the island of Lesbos[/B][/QUOTE]
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