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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3585002, member: 98035&quot;]1.1.8 Coin 3</p><p>22mm</p><p>3.88g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956978[/ATTACH] </p><p>Despite the heavy wear, this coin has quite a striking portrait! Again we see a bust with a very prominent Asiatic eye, portrayed as a dot sitting inside of an almond shaped opening. The nose is short and runs from the brim of the hat down to just above the upper lip, and the nostril is a dot sitting atop the cheek. The lips and chin are all dots, and a short moustache runs from between the nostril and upper lip onto the cheek. The beard is a double-row of dots. The ear is narrow, tall, and wears at least two pearls hanging down on the earring. The hat is small and mostly lost to wear. We can see that the front ribbon is small and cramped in front of the nose, probably indicating that the hat has a wide brim.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, not much of the fire altar is visible except the bowl, shaft and base. Note that the bottom line of the bowl is crooked; this is unusual for any Indo-Sassanian coin. The shaft is a plain pillar, and the ribbons are short strings of dots that nearly form a circle. The attendants are characteristic of the series-although the upper portions of their bodies are not visible, we can see that rather than creating the dress from herringbones (as is typical for the series), the Celator drew a curvy line from the attendant&#039;s arm to the edge of the die and added herringbones to that -there is no hem and no legs, giving the attendant an unsettlingly serpentine appearance, like the Lamia or Naga.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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