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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;JayAg47, post: 5279699, member: 112342&quot;]So I really like this obverse image of Heracles/Alexander so much that I made some replicas of it to fondle <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie7" alt=":p" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I took a wax cast, and then just pressed in the terracotta to make these &#039;coins&#039;. Looks more like the late Roman tetradrachms from Alexandria lol.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221022[/ATTACH]</p><p>The die</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1221031[/ATTACH]</p><p>Makes me wonder how the heck engravers back in those days made such realistic 3d/high relief, detailed,and polished dies! a knowledge which appears to have been lost after the fall of Rome to up until the Renaissance![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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