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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3584981, member: 98035&quot;]1.1.5 Coin 5</p><p>23mm</p><p>3.89g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956962[/ATTACH] </p><p>What a peculiar bust! While coins of this series come in a rather wide array of styles, this one sports by far the most crude portrait I have ever seen within this style. While the necklace and shoulder pads are delicately detailed, the face presents with the cheek as a large squarish block, and the rest of the features sort of hovering in front of it. The eye is an unadorned dot; the nose a line with no visible nostril, and the lips two simple dots several millimeters removed from the cheek. The beard is a single line of dots which form the jaw and chin. The hair bun is an indistinct blob, and the ear is completely obscured by the striking issues. We can see the brim of the hat and part of the front wing, but not much detail in the headgear. The neck is unusually thick and prominent between the jaw and the necklace. The ribbon originates from the tip of the shoulder pad and curves like a backwards S to the upper portion, which tips toward the portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fire altar is quite unusual as well; the flame begins as clear and well-spaced dots for the first three lines, but two additional lines are added, making the flame pattern 9-5-4-3-2-1. The bottom is so tightly packed that it could pass for a fourth line of the bowl. We can see the shaft is a diamond shape, although much of the lower portion is obscured by a flat strike. There is a clear moon at the upper right, although a double strike has erased the sun, if it was there to begin with. A second attendant&#039;s head hovers slightly below where we would expect the sun to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>The double strike is especially apparent on the attendants, and makes them somewhat difficult to make out. The right is the more clear, and we can see a small round head sitting atop a necklace, with prominent breasts below it. It appears at first that the body is a straight line, but on closer observation we can see a faint thorn dress offset by a couple mm to the right; the line extending down from the breasts is actually the altar-side arm. The dress seems to fork out at the hem, but the legs are not distinct. The arm is medium, and bends sharply at the elbow.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note also that the dies used on this coin are a good deal smaller than the flan diameter - both were offset, which caused rather extreme distortion; almost a scyphate shape. That could be a primary driving factor behind the eventual move to using dies larger than the flans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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