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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7538188, member: 110350"]Great illustrations. I wonder what the reason is for the sacrificial axe being ornamented with a lion -- apparently a general feature, not limited to this coin-type?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not yet looked for die-matches in Schaefer. I find that I rarely have patience to go through pages and pages of clippings in those binders, except when there are specific control-marks I can look for to narrow down the field. Absent that, there isn't always a distinctive feature about the particular die that allows me to recognize it while scrolling past at the rate of a couple per second! Although I suppose in this case I could look for the distinctive shape of the lion's head, at least for the reverse. For the obverse, I see nothing remarkably distinctive, so I'd have to look for things like the shape of the S in the S•C. (I have no reason to believe that the same obverse and reverse dies were always matched together, so I'd have to look at both sides of every example. I admire your patience if you can do that on a regular basis!)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7538188, member: 110350"]Great illustrations. I wonder what the reason is for the sacrificial axe being ornamented with a lion -- apparently a general feature, not limited to this coin-type? I have not yet looked for die-matches in Schaefer. I find that I rarely have patience to go through pages and pages of clippings in those binders, except when there are specific control-marks I can look for to narrow down the field. Absent that, there isn't always a distinctive feature about the particular die that allows me to recognize it while scrolling past at the rate of a couple per second! Although I suppose in this case I could look for the distinctive shape of the lion's head, at least for the reverse. For the obverse, I see nothing remarkably distinctive, so I'd have to look for things like the shape of the S in the S•C. (I have no reason to believe that the same obverse and reverse dies were always matched together, so I'd have to look at both sides of every example. I admire your patience if you can do that on a regular basis!)[/QUOTE]
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