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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 633220, member: 57463&quot;]<b>It depends on how you look at it</b></p><p><br /></p><p>This exchange exemplifies the reason why it is important to stop and think.&nbsp; When I saw the picture, I knew it was not a genuine Roman coin, but I hesitated to condemn it ... and now I am glad that I did. </p><p><br /></p><p>We have DOUG SMITH here as a &quot;Junior Member&quot; even though he is senior to most for his long years of study and research.&nbsp; In my book, his opinions get more weight than those of the average collector of ancients.</p><p><br /></p><p>The digression on Celtics also typifies the danger in quick judgments.&nbsp; Many Celtic coins -- right up to the Middle Ages, in fact -- were not meant to be looked at flat on like a painting.&nbsp; The intended view was EDGE on, obliquely.&nbsp; When you rotate many Celtic coins to see them edge-on, or obliquely, those &quot;picasso&quot; or &quot;modern art&quot; spaces and lines re-orient themselves into lifelike representations.&nbsp; This discovery is the work of Geraldine Chimirri-Russell of the Nickle Arts Museum of the University of Calgary.&nbsp; (I posted in more detail on FORVM under Celtic last December.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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