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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 3206454, member: 83956&quot;][ATTACH=full]831269[/ATTACH]</p><p>So the middle coin arrived this week from Spain--an eBay snack from Lucernae. I’m trying to get a CONSTANTINE SOL INVICTUS from each mint. The middle one is from Trier.</p><p><br /></p><p>I like this one not only because of the awesome cape (chlamys), but because of Sol’s posture: left leg straight and right knee bent. This pose, for some idiosyncratic reason, reminds me of the Heisman Trophy pose (an American football award, for our European friends). In my mind I think of these as the “HEISMAN SOL” coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>The pose is distinctive because most of these coins have Sol’s right leg straight and left leg bent, like in the Sol coin from Aquileia on the far left. I don’t know what would make a die engraver opt for the Heisman pose—some kind of mint control effort, or just a bored die engraver wanting to do something different?</p><p><br /></p><p>On a related note, I’ve often found the directional descriptions of these coins to be confusing. It’s common to see this: “Sol facing left, holding globe in left hand with right outstreched…” or some variation.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000">With the respect to the <i>hand position</i>, <b>Right </b>and <b>Left</b>, then, must refer to <i>Sol’s</i> right and left. But the facing direction seems to be described from the <i>perspective of the coin viewer</i>, not Sol. If Sol could talk, he’d say he was turning his head to the right. Right? Confusing.</span></p><p><br /></p><p>So post your “Sol for the Heisman” coins, or garden variety Sols, or maybe just comment on the red bit above to confirm that I’ve accurately summarized the conventional (and confusing) numismatic reverse description.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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