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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3399291, member: 19463&quot;]I disagree.&nbsp; This coin is the type showing Apollo preparing to grab a lizard by slowly creeping up on it.&nbsp; We all did that when I was a boy.&nbsp; The idea was not to kill but to capture and prove you could.&nbsp; There are coins showing the dart pose:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]902714[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>TIF&#039;s Caracalla above shows a fine example of Apollo planning to swat the lizard with a leafy branch.&nbsp; I wonder if there were full size statues of each pose in the Nikopolis art museum???</p><p><br /></p><p>I have several to offer for the project but will have to retrieve the coins from the bank to measure.&nbsp; In most of my collecting life, I recorded weights but not diameter since a little extra hammer strength could produce an AE22 right after an AE20.&nbsp; There are those who say we should always give the maximum diameter while others always measure one direction.&nbsp; I never considered that number as significant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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