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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2664412, member: 85693&quot;]Thank you so much for all of your comments and warm welcomes.&nbsp; I&#039;m kind of glad the coin is causing some difficulty - I was afraid it would turn out to be an easy one and I&#039;d be wasting your time.&nbsp; I&#039;ll keep checking in hopes somebody can track it down. The suggestions you&#039;ve all made have been thought-provoking - birds, germinating grain, female parts.&nbsp; Interesting. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was some thoughts on the flan.&nbsp; It is very uneven - thin on one end and chunky on the other.&nbsp; You can kind of tell from the photos where it bulges from the strike, particularly on the non-face side.&nbsp; It looks to me to be good silver, but I don&#039;t have the skill or equipment to go beyond a guess.&nbsp; There is no sign of crystalization, which might make its ancient origins unlikely (in my limited experiences, these tiny Greek silver coins are often crystalized to some extent). </p><p>Thank you, TIF for copying my images into the post.&nbsp; How do you do this?&nbsp; I was looking for a CoinTalk newbie guide but couldn&#039;t find anything about posting images. </p><p><br /></p><p>I love those Septimius Severus &quot;Mars Pater&quot; examples, dougsmit.&nbsp; I have a supposedly &quot;rare&quot; Septimius Severus denarius I might start another thread on, and I&#039;ll toss up my Mars Pater example there (I did not know about the &quot;COS&quot; obverse legend variety - mine is the common type). Very interesting doublestrike. </p><p><br /></p><p>Again, thank you all.&nbsp; This has been very enjoyable.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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