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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pellinore, post: 5253153, member: 74834&quot;]The thing is, I didn&#039;t immediately see the reverse picture of the coin at CNG&#039;s was upside down (<a href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-1EGX60/kings-of-parthia-orodes-ii-circa-57-38-bc-ar-drachm-20mm-399-g-12h-ekbatana-mint-struck-circa-40-bc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://auctions.cngcoins.com/lots/view/4-1EGX60/kings-of-parthia-orodes-ii-circa-57-38-bc-ar-drachm-20mm-399-g-12h-ekbatana-mint-struck-circa-40-bc" rel="nofollow">still is</a>), and I thought I had found an unlisted drachm with left-looking archer. The sitting archer upside down here looks rather like a sitting man, too, only a bit slumped with his head forward, raising an arm. </p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s nothing wrong with the coin, but the designer of the coin unwittingly engraved an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram" rel="nofollow">ambigram</a> that upside down makes sense, too - like the <a href="http://www.toonopedia.com/upside.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.toonopedia.com/upside.htm" rel="nofollow">Incredible Upside Downs</a>, that brilliant American comic strip of 1903.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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