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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3585029, member: 98035&quot;]<b>1.1.9.3 - Closing Series III - Chavada Portrait</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This final type is primarily responsible for why this thread has taken me nearly a year to complete! What I initially thought was a paradigm shift in the development from haphazard series 1.1 to the more standardized 1.2 was in actuality a gradual evolution. This very nearly closes the gap, but not so much that they don&#039;t belong here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Important features to note:</p><p>- These coins have &lt;b&gt;one ribbon&lt;/b&gt; on either side of the fire altar - 1.2 onward has two</p><p>- The portraits are very similar to 1.2, but usually have more elongated foreheads</p><p>- The attendants still wear herringbone dresses, but Maheshwari illustrates a few where the attendant&#039;s body has nearly withered away into a ball</p><p>- The flames are standardized into ordered rows of dots, but they are not firmly standardized into a 4-3-2-1 pattern yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>1.1.9.3 Coin 1</p><p>21mm</p><p>3.96g</p><p>[ATTACH=full]956988[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here we finally see the portrait type that will come to dominate all of series 1.2, which I call the Chavada type for convenience. The portrait is tall, thin, has a very tall cheek, jutting eyebrow, and elongated forehead. The eye is an unadorned dot sitting at the top of a large chasm that is the face. The nostril, lips, and chin all line up with the eye nearly perfectly. There is the faintest hint of a moustache on the top lip, but it is nearly worn away. The beard is made up of fine dots that hover a short distance from the face and wrap around the head before trailing off to become the brim of the hat. The ear is high, small, simplified, and touts the standard three-pearl earring. The hair bun is an indistinct star behind the ear. The ribbon is somewhat visible, but too badly worn to provide any useful insights. Almost none of the headgear is visible, but we can see a very tall forehead that leans slightly backward.</p><p><br /></p><p>The fire altar has nearly completed its transformation into the Chavada type. It is tall, quite wide, and most importantly, the shaft has transformed into an eight-rayed star; the vertical rays much longer than the rest, like the stereotypical &quot;Star of Bethlehem&quot;. The ribbons originate from the bottom line of the fire altar bowl, and hang down its side and out of sight off the die. The flames are neat rows of dots, but curiously there is an extra bottom row of 5 dots... two steps forward, one step back? The sun is on the left, and is an uneven six-pointed star, and the moon is on the right, a long thin crescent without any central dot. The attendants are quite simplified at this point - the head is a small circle atop a solid necklace crescent. The right attendant has visible breasts, but they are not even. She has a medium sized arm that joints at the elbow at about 90 degrees. Her skirt is made of herringbones with no visible legs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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