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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8079901, member: 110350&quot;]If we can be serious numismatists for a moment, Milne actually lists 5 different varieties of the type, Nos. 5325-5329. As far as I can tell from all of Milne&#039;s abbreviations and codes, the five varieties differ only in the positions of their reverse dies, which he indicates by tiny arrows pointing in different directions rather than by the usual clock hours. In order, translated into hours, the five types beginning with 5325 seem to be at 3 hrs, 5 hrs, 9 hrs, 10 hrs, and 8 hrs. Hopefully one of those matches yours! All five specimens were donated to the Ashmolean by Milne himself between 1897 and 1932.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only hesitation I have with the identification as a hippocamp is that I&#039;m used to seeing them with the front legs of horses. Yours doesn&#039;t appear to show that, but then again neither does the one at the link I posted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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