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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3584977, member: 98035&quot;]1.1.5 Coin 2</p><p>23mm</p><p>4.04g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956954[/ATTACH] </p><p>This coin is clearly of the same issue as our Coin 1, possibly even from the same dies. The flat-struck areas on these two coins complement one another, so a certain assessment may not be possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The portrait on this coin is more complete, and more striking. We can see the eye here is an unadorned dot sitting within a rather large eye socket. The huge nose displays as an irregular wedge shape, disconnected from the rest of the face except perhaps at the nasal bridge. The ear is large, rounded, and adorned with a three-pearl earring. The hair bun is a star behind the head, here showing more worn than the previous example. The rear ribbon is visible here, the lower portion comprised of two lines trailing in from the edge of the die, and the upper portion cramped beneath the brim of the hat, which is mostly not visible.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, the fire altar takes a rather striking shape, the flame seemingly a solid triangle atop the bowl. The shaft is a lozenge shape, and short sagging ribbons hang from the bottom of the bowl. There appear to be *two* moons on this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The attendants again take a rather unusual form, with a large, almost naturally shaped head atop a body of extremely prominent herringbones. The legs are two large dots at the bottom of the dress, and the arms are extremely long, here again with a subtle three-pellet decoration at the shoulder. An important feature here - near the elbow of the left attendant we can see a small squiggle; as far as I have seen, this is the last coin from this entire track to show any remnant of the original Pahlavi legend.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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