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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3584997, member: 98035&quot;]<b>1.1.8 -Line Style 3 - Almond eye</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This final line style type is the most varied of the three, and includes some of the most degenerate coins found within series 1.1. It is difficult to assess such things, but based on stylistic clues, these may be one of the longer running types of this series.</p><p><br /></p><p>Consideration points for the type:</p><p>- Like 1.1.6, the head is more or less naturalistically proportioned.</p><p>- The cheek is roundish, but never perfectly round.</p><p>- The portrait wears the typical wide-brimmed hat, the bowl of which is conservatively sized and proportioned.</p><p>- The eye is distinctively almond-shaped, usually open at the front, and the pupil sits in this opening.</p><p>- The nostril is a dot, and sits on top of the cheek</p><p>The lips are dots, and a moustache usually runs from the upper lip onto the cheek, and</p><p>does not touch the beard</p><p>- The fire altar is usually sloppily engraved.</p><p>- The attendants are degenerate, showing exaggerated herringbones which sometimes run all the way to the edge of the die with no apparent hem or legs. Imagine what a mermaid skeleton might look like.</p><p>- The series is notorious for poor strikes.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.1.8 Coin 1</p><p>22mm</p><p>4.09g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956974[/ATTACH] </p><p>This coin I had originally assigned to 1.1.2 before deciding it met the criteria for inclusion here. Here we find an artful and well proportioned portrait with the telltale</p><p>almond eye. The flan is somewhat scyphate, and only the center of the obverse and reverse is visible The cheek is nearly a circle, and while engraved somewhat in relief, no other feature of the face touches it directly, thus it still qualifies as &quot;line relief&quot;. The eye is a striking almond shape (or a &lt; if you will) with an unadorned pupil sitting at the opening. The nose descends at about a 30 degree angle and terminates in a dot, with the dot nostril sitting behind it. The upper lip is merged with the sharply engraved and struck moustache which extends over about 3/4 of the cheek, and the lower lip is a dot below it. The beard is made of two layers of dots, extending from the brim of the hat to the lower lip and chin. The ear is small and sits high on the head, right under the brim of the hat, and is adorned with the typical three-pear earring. The hair is a pom-pom shape behind the head The hat is tall, textured, and sports rather typically styled wings and a wide brim comprised of a single row of dots. We can see the front ribbon has a double-ine lower portion and a tightly clustered, carefully engraved upper portion. The shoulder pads are obscured by a large area of flat strike. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is unfortunately restricted to just the upper two thirds of the fire altar. We can see the flame is a tight clustering of dots, and the bowl is engraved to be relatively deep compared to the flame, each line well-spaced and the top bowl line is a bit longer than the others, as the attendants inner arms do not extend all the way up to the bowl. The shaft is a small vertical line and the ribbons are short and made of tightly clustered dots, sagging only slightly on the way to the attendants&#039; hands. The sun and moon are confused piles of dots; it is difficult to discern which is intended to be which. We can vaguely make out the upper portion of the right attendant, which has an oval head[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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