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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2906052, member: 76194&quot;]Well, you should be into ancients considering how much your modern coins have been influenced by ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the angel of your Libertad</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701022[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And look at the reverse of this Maximinus Thrax denarius, at the Victoria Augusta....see the similarities? Now you see where the inspiration for the modern Libertad came from. Take away the palm branch from the ancient one and they are almost identical.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701023[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And for the eagle holding a snake, I understand that was an Aztec thing, but if a coiner wanted to know how to depict it on a modern coin, look at ancient coinage for inspiration.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s yours</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701026[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This ancient from Kamarina depicts an owl sideways grasping a gecko. Its very similar to yours. Mine is rather small and hard to see, but others here have better coins of Kamarina, and I hope they post them so you can really see the similarity with the reverse of your Mexican coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701030[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Plus eagles grasping objects was very popular in ancient coinage, especially wreaths (which is very comparable to the eagle depictions you&#039;ll also see in the back of your US coins from the 1800s and early 1900s) as the modern coiners were inspired by the ancient coiners.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701033[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Oh, and I wont judge you for collecting modern stuff.</b> After all, I&#039;ve been collecting poured silver bars lately.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701038[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And I even have some of these poured silver skull bars coming in the mail.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]701039[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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