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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3771974, member: 98035"]Nice examples, all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I'll freely admit that this series is one that isn't exactly easy or intuitive to understand - it took me hundreds of hours studying thousands of coins before the patterns started to emerge - there are still many gaps in my knowledge, but my understanding of the relationship between 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 is almost complete. I actually wrote up a step by step explaining how the series evolved; I'll try to get some pictures to illustrate my points.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] and [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] both posted nice examples of the small head Orthodox type, which was early in series 1.4. You can always tell the type because of the relatively large (18-19mm) flan, tiny head, nearly complete strike on both sides, and the fact that nearly all of them are identical save for some extremely minor details. Here's a quick lineup of six of mine to illustrate my point:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1008821[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3771974, member: 98035"]Nice examples, all! I'll freely admit that this series is one that isn't exactly easy or intuitive to understand - it took me hundreds of hours studying thousands of coins before the patterns started to emerge - there are still many gaps in my knowledge, but my understanding of the relationship between 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 is almost complete. I actually wrote up a step by step explaining how the series evolved; I'll try to get some pictures to illustrate my points. [USER=82322]@Ed Snible[/USER] and [USER=51347]@Alegandron[/USER] both posted nice examples of the small head Orthodox type, which was early in series 1.4. You can always tell the type because of the relatively large (18-19mm) flan, tiny head, nearly complete strike on both sides, and the fact that nearly all of them are identical save for some extremely minor details. Here's a quick lineup of six of mine to illustrate my point: [ATTACH=full]1008821[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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