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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7627329, member: 110350&quot;][USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER], if Paris possesses what could be a genuine example, do you have a link to an online photo of the Paris specimen? It would make sense to compare them.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the object at the top of the cone on the British Museum example looks like a baetyl (which some apparently think it was intended to be), whereas the one on top of Pete&#039;s example looks simply like a sphere. There are a number of 17th century prints of the Meta Sudans -- based on artists&#039; conceptions of what it looked like originally, not what it looked like in the 1600s -- and the ones I&#039;ve seen have what looks like a sphere on top. See, e.g., <a href="https://www.sandersofoxford.com/shop/product/meta-sudans/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.sandersofoxford.com/shop/product/meta-sudans/" rel="nofollow">https://www.sandersofoxford.com/shop/product/meta-sudans/</a>. So I suppose that if Pete&#039;s example is a copy, it could theoretically be a copy of one of those prints.&nbsp; Is it possible to see what the object is on top of the cone in the images of the Meta Sudans on genuine Colosseum coins, on which the Meta Sudans appears to the left?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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