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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 8288984, member: 26430&quot;]Interesting thread! Helmets in their varieties do a appear on a LOT of ancient coins. I&#039;d forgotten some of my own (like the big facing Justinians) had helmets at all.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have lots of Corinthian helmets with heads inside, but a couple new purchases (still en route) are without (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860091" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860091" rel="nofollow">BCD Lokris-Phokis 198</a> and <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860090" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=860090" rel="nofollow">197</a>, both ~0.4g or slightly lighter, these are the 2010 photos by NAC):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464934[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464935[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>(On those ones it looks rather like the bull is considering testing the integrity of the helmets upon impact.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I suppose my favorite helmet with a head inside would be this elaborately decorated one on a New Style Tetradrachm:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464936[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>However... I <i>really</i> wish that Stephen Corn (c. 1942/3 – 2018) hadn&#039;t cleaned it (I assume it was him, since all his looked similar, but suppose it could&#039;ve been done by Tom Cederlind, from whom Corn bought it, or by someone at HJB, where the collection was dispersed after his death). Here it was in its fully glory at <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2014730" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=2014730" rel="nofollow">Münzen &amp; Medaillen GmbH (DE) Auction 40 (Munich, 4 June 2014), Lot 196</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464938[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m patient, though; the tone will come back. (Or some kind of toning will.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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