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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 4067295, member: 98035&quot;]First two batches (80 coins) made it in late last week! I&#039;ve been a kid in a candy store going through them, even though I am beginning to have to re-consider how I had the coins classified in my first two passes. Information overload, but I&#039;m getting there.</p><p><br /></p><p>A few to share for now...</p><p><br /></p><p>A fun early Hunnic portrait</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063393[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Which is a die match to one in <i>Imitations in Continuity (</i>The obverse is a definite match, the reverse of Maheshwari&#039;s I think was double struck, so it&#039;s a tough call)</p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1063400[/ATTACH] </i></p><p><br /></p><p>A lovely 1.1.3 - Fancy hat, large square jaw</p><p>I had been pining for one in this style- I call it the &quot;Super Sombrero&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063395[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Hunnic portrait, this one is a die match to the one in my OP</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063396[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1063408[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A neat double strike - it seems that only half of the obverse was struck, so they attempted to strike the other half, but it shifted by a couple of mimillimeters.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063397[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Another piece in the puzzle of how series 1.1 morphed into series 1.2 - I have narrowed down the defining factor to be the presence of one row of fire altar ribbon (1.1) versus two (1.2) - here the attendant holds a short ribbon while another lays across the fire altar base (And yes that is a massive bulge in the coin - perhaps the die was damaged?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063398[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But most exciting of all, I got two more die matches to my &quot;swirly helmet&quot; sub type</p><p><br /></p><p>Original (from early 2017)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063412[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>New #1</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063394[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And perhaps the most important discovery I&#039;ve made in this series...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1063399[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>An obverse die match coupled with a totally different style reverse! This proves that:</p><p>1) The dies were likely re-engraved from scratch when they wore out or broke, very likely by different people.</p><p>2) The celatores were working under very lax quality control and had a lot of wiggle room to express their personal style</p><p>3) That said, I&#039;m baffled at how well the technical components held up over the century or three that these coins were made. It&#039;s almost as if the celatores were not given a coin and told &quot;copy this&quot; but rather a checklist of features to include on the coin. As someone who writes technical documentation for a living, this is especially fascinating to me.</p><p>4) I&#039;m still trying to figure out why the fire altar ribbons look like colossal shrimp[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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