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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4847634, member: 84744"]I take it back. The bit that looks like a beard on my coin appears instead to be a die break... those Eruscans and their broken dies! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here's what it's supposed to look like:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170457[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And here's another example with the die break:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1170458[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I found these images at the website of the <a href="https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it" rel="nofollow">Museo Archeologico Nazionale</a> (Florence), a resource I wasn't previously aware of. They have quite a nice <a href="https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it/cat/FI-ETR" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it/cat/FI-ETR" rel="nofollow">catalogue of Etruscan coins</a>, worth a look. (I'm thinking the coin [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] wants is the one pictured at the top...)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4847634, member: 84744"]I take it back. The bit that looks like a beard on my coin appears instead to be a die break... those Eruscans and their broken dies! :D Here's what it's supposed to look like: [ATTACH=full]1170457[/ATTACH] And here's another example with the die break: [ATTACH=full]1170458[/ATTACH] I found these images at the website of the [URL='https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it']Museo Archeologico Nazionale[/URL] (Florence), a resource I wasn't previously aware of. They have quite a nice [URL='https://medagliere-firenze.lamoneta.it/cat/FI-ETR']catalogue of Etruscan coins[/URL], worth a look. (I'm thinking the coin [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] wants is the one pictured at the top...)[/QUOTE]
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