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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 6666939, member: 110350&quot;]Thank you. I very much like your idea of adding more detail. Although, despite what one may think from my lengthy footnotes for Republican coins, which I add simply because there&#039;s so much to write about their historical background and symbolism, I&#039;m probably too lazy to add quite that much for all the coins I own. Like descriptions of beading and borders and decorations and the like. I might follow your suggestion and start adding more to my descriptions, though, especially in the future. For example, a description of the jewelry worn by the obverse figure, whether Roma or another goddess, is something I do already try to include when I remember. I admit that I&#039;m not that great at identifying helmet parts! However, my primary audience for the descriptions I write is myself (in the personal catalog I keep) and the highly knowledgeable membership here, so I don&#039;t think it&#039;s necessary to spell out basic shorthand conventions like &quot;right&quot; meaning &quot;facing right.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the elephant head on the reverse, I guess it does have a tusk -- it&#039;s a bit hard to see. As I pointed out elsewhere, the bell it&#039;s wearing is placed so that it looks more like a bottle it&#039;s drinking from than a bell hanging from its neck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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