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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2317280, member: 42773&quot;]Next on the slate is this amazing Illyrian drachm - I&#039;m amazed at any rate. This is evidently a rare variety, although I don&#039;t know the types well, so someone correct me if I&#039;m wrong. At any rate, I find it very desirable because of all the minor devices on the obverse, the pilei of the Dioscuri above, ear of grain to left, torch to right. The magistrate&#039;s name ΞΕΝΩΝ is above, and you all know how unevenly these coins were struck. This one has a perfectly even, strong strike, with sharp detail in the cow and suckling calf, the double stellate pattern and all the letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]467739[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Again , it took searching through a bag of a hundred coins to come across this one, but it was worth the effort in my estimation.</p><p><br /></p><p>More stuff you learn looking through hoards: it appeared to me that these coins did not vary in weight but slightly. However, the flan shapes are all over the map, and the flans are quite thin - about a millimeter. Is it possible that these flans were not cast? That a measured amount of silver was simply poured out on a flat surface to cool, like pancakes? Because that&#039;s exactly what they look like when put forty or fifty of them on a tray.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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