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<p>[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 6377569, member: 83845"]Beautiful coin Terence! Thank you for the notes on portraiture as well.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is one of the best, if not THE best, Leukippos type I have seen during my research. Wonderful coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>It is indeed hard to tell on the exact denomination. Mine falls between Hemiobol and tetartemorion as well. that is to be expected on mine with the poor preservation but yours I would think would be closer to the average as nice as it is.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The circular and D shaped theta in the monogram both seem to appear on all types in what seems to be random. From what I could tell the D shape was a bit more common. The circular shape seemed to appear most often on the Zeus type. I tried to make it clear in my chart that the monogram shapes were interchangeable on the Zeus, Hephaestus and Leukippos types.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only reverse that is unique to a type is the one that includes M-A as a mark for Magnesia. This occurs only on the Hephaestus type which seems to be confirmed by Nolle and Wenninger because it gets its own catalogue number: Th 3b. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned up on another reverse though.</p><p><br /></p><p>So far we have 2 of the 5 types (Hephaestus/Themistokles and Leukippos). I wonder if we would be able to make a full CoinTalk type set?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Curtisimo, post: 6377569, member: 83845"]Beautiful coin Terence! Thank you for the notes on portraiture as well. That is one of the best, if not THE best, Leukippos type I have seen during my research. Wonderful coin! It is indeed hard to tell on the exact denomination. Mine falls between Hemiobol and tetartemorion as well. that is to be expected on mine with the poor preservation but yours I would think would be closer to the average as nice as it is. The circular and D shaped theta in the monogram both seem to appear on all types in what seems to be random. From what I could tell the D shape was a bit more common. The circular shape seemed to appear most often on the Zeus type. I tried to make it clear in my chart that the monogram shapes were interchangeable on the Zeus, Hephaestus and Leukippos types. The only reverse that is unique to a type is the one that includes M-A as a mark for Magnesia. This occurs only on the Hephaestus type which seems to be confirmed by Nolle and Wenninger because it gets its own catalogue number: Th 3b. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turned up on another reverse though. So far we have 2 of the 5 types (Hephaestus/Themistokles and Leukippos). I wonder if we would be able to make a full CoinTalk type set?[/QUOTE]
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