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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3584955, member: 98035&quot;]1.1.2 Coin 5</p><p>21mm</p><p>3.92g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956936[/ATTACH] </p><p>This was one of my favorites the first time around, and remains so today!</p><p><br /></p><p>The portrait is the most striking feature of this coin, with a large, pointed nose, large lips, small chin, and tall head. The eye is unusually present, albeit weakly struck. Heavy wear and flat struck areas sadly limit detailed analysis of many of the portrait&#039;s features, although we can see that the &quot;antenna&quot; here has largely merged with the hat. The ribbons are carefully arranged to fill in nearly all of the obverse die, leaving almost no negative space on the obverse. Unusually, the bottom portion of the ribbon connects between the necklace and shoulder pads.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is quite simplistic, characterized by a large fire altar with a large and wide bowl, large and wide base, and a very small shaft (unfortunately flat-struck here). The flame seems to follow a 4-3-2-1 pattern, but the sun (depicted as a single dot with 8 rays emanating from it) is on the right side, not the left. The moon is off-flan.</p><p><br /></p><p>The attendants are small and simply engraved--the head is a dot only slightly larger than those around it, while the body is a thin line with very faint and crudely engraved thorns. No legs are present, and the arms are simply engraved, bending at the elbow. The necklace of five pearls wraps confusedly around the head.</p><p><br /></p><p>A particularly interesting feature of this coin is a textured pattern of a straight line and criss-crossed lines in a flat-struck area beneath the right shoulder pad - I believe this is a remnant of the flan preparation process, although I am not sure what it indicates.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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