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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3584993, member: 98035"]1.1.7 Coin 3</p><p>23mm</p><p>4.16g[ATTACH=full]956971[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here again we see a tall and narrow head with a dramatic vertical nose. The eye is a very small dot, and curiously we can see a bit of an Asiatic eye socket, similar to 1.1.6 Coin 2. The lips are more dramatically dashes, and we can see a little bit of a moustache coming up over the cheek, which bulges out under the eye but remains fairly wide all the way up to the brim of the hat. Again we see the same semicircular hat bowl surrounded by dots, and another double brim for the hat. The wings are small. Curiously, this coin does not have the inverse Y earring, but rather the normal two pearls on separate chains directly connecting to the ear lobe, with a third hovering below it. The shoulder pads are present, and rather small for the type. The ribbon is comprised of a single line lower portion, and loosely spaced upper portion.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fire altar is nearly all flame! I count six rows of flame dots, with at least six in the bottom row, although it does trail off into a flat strike. The sun is a dramatic starburst to the upper left, and the attendant sports a very tall ovoid head and large necklace of beads. The arm again is sharply jointed, and she wears a herringbone dress that seems to flare out, but is mostly lost to the flat strike. We can see the die border quite clearly, which is made up of triangles strung together and pointing clockwise.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3584993, member: 98035"]1.1.7 Coin 3 23mm 4.16g[ATTACH=full]956971[/ATTACH] Here again we see a tall and narrow head with a dramatic vertical nose. The eye is a very small dot, and curiously we can see a bit of an Asiatic eye socket, similar to 1.1.6 Coin 2. The lips are more dramatically dashes, and we can see a little bit of a moustache coming up over the cheek, which bulges out under the eye but remains fairly wide all the way up to the brim of the hat. Again we see the same semicircular hat bowl surrounded by dots, and another double brim for the hat. The wings are small. Curiously, this coin does not have the inverse Y earring, but rather the normal two pearls on separate chains directly connecting to the ear lobe, with a third hovering below it. The shoulder pads are present, and rather small for the type. The ribbon is comprised of a single line lower portion, and loosely spaced upper portion. The fire altar is nearly all flame! I count six rows of flame dots, with at least six in the bottom row, although it does trail off into a flat strike. The sun is a dramatic starburst to the upper left, and the attendant sports a very tall ovoid head and large necklace of beads. The arm again is sharply jointed, and she wears a herringbone dress that seems to flare out, but is mostly lost to the flat strike. We can see the die border quite clearly, which is made up of triangles strung together and pointing clockwise.[/QUOTE]
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