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<p>[QUOTE="pprp, post: 4756593, member: 94602"]The full crest was possible with only a few designs where the head of Athena was relatively small and so with a careful strike you could get the whole of the head on the flan. Styles of these designs vary and the nicest one I recently saw is the Potts example which hammered a 5 digit number (<a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5281308" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5281308" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5281308</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>While I would like to get a really full head on the flan at some point in time, I have been beating around the bush so far as I am also looking into other details. For example my latest addition below has probably the deepest strike I have seen so far and almost a full incuse square. The crest, although still on the flan, can't be described as full as the lines have been destroyed.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1160595[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="pprp, post: 4756593, member: 94602"]The full crest was possible with only a few designs where the head of Athena was relatively small and so with a careful strike you could get the whole of the head on the flan. Styles of these designs vary and the nicest one I recently saw is the Potts example which hammered a 5 digit number ([URL]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5281308[/URL]). While I would like to get a really full head on the flan at some point in time, I have been beating around the bush so far as I am also looking into other details. For example my latest addition below has probably the deepest strike I have seen so far and almost a full incuse square. The crest, although still on the flan, can't be described as full as the lines have been destroyed. [ATTACH=full]1160595[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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