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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3584980, member: 98035&quot;]1.1.5 Coin 4</p><p>23mm</p><p>4.06g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956958[/ATTACH] </p><p>This coin seems to draw inspiration from Series 1.1.4, although with some distinctions. The portrait here has a distinctive smoothly curved jaw, which gives the head the overall shape of an orange slice! It is engraved in better relief than is typical for series after 1.1.2. The eye is a small unadorned dot sitting directly on the face with no visible socket. The nose is a straight line with a dot nostril, just as on our Coin 3. The lips are also dots arranged directly beneath the nostril, although there is a clear moustache coming from the upper lip. The beard is made of two parallel lines of dots, and merge at an indistinct point directly beneath the lower lip. The ear is naturalistically engraved, with only two pearls visible. The hat again has a dotted brim, but this time it does not extend all the way to the edge of the coin. The wings are elaborately engraved, almost exactly like on 1.1.4. The top of the hat is tall and comes to a point, no antenna or orb visible on this specimen. The ribbon is elegantly engraved, with the lower portion presenting as two lines giving the impression of a thick ribbon which folds right above the shoulder pad and leads up to a rather small and slanted upper portion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fire altar is tall and hour glass shaped. The flames are not visible at all, and the bowl presents with the top two lines of nearly equal length atop a very stunted third line. The base is more evenly sloped, and the shaft is a pleasing diamond shape. The ribbons are strings of dots hanging down to the attendants&#039; hands, although there are two unexplained dots beneath the left ribbon. Moon and/or sun are obscured by the flat strike.</p><p><br /></p><p>The attendants take the usual tall thin shape, although their heads are not distinct. The herringbones are rather subtle, although more pronounced on the right attendant. The dress forks outward at the hem, although we can see on the left attendant that it is decorated with dots. Clear legs present as two lines of dots beneath the dress. The arms are long and meet sharply at the elbow. The fire altar-side arms are entirely detached from the body, arcing from the bottom to the top of the bowl and coming closest to their attendant in the middle, at roughly head level.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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