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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24732817, member: 26430&quot;]Claudius II with a weird one... Homonoia has a <i><b>gigantic 3-fingered left hand on her RIGHT arm</b></i>!! <i>Homonoia <i>Scaevola </i>Alienus</i>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582177[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Lol, starting in the mid/late 3rd century the engravers started having problems representing bodily proportions, and hands seem to have given them the most trouble. (There are some great Alexandrian tetradrachms at the end where the fingers are like arms!)</p><p><br /></p><p>A couple of my weird Antoniniani hands:</p><p><br /></p><p>On this Valerian, Apollo is supposed to be holding a branch, but you can&#039;t tell where his arm ends and the branch begins.... in German, I think &quot;Apollo Branch Hands&quot; would be <i>Apollo-Zweighände</i>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582174[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I need a better photo here, but I love this Otacilia with Pietas Crab Hands = <i>Pietas-Krabbenhände</i>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582175[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Sol was also often weirdly proportioned. Sol Strange Hands = <i>Sol der Fremdhändige</i>:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1582176[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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