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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3791516, member: 19463"]Sometimes I question whether it is necessary to pile on all our examples of the same coin but I do enjoy seeing the differences that make every ancient coin unique. In this case, my coin demonstrates what we get when the strike was not hard enough to force silver into the high points of the reverse center. Less obvious is the matching weakness in the neck hair curls on the obverse. Of the three, my coin has the best heads and feet on the reverse but Jochen's coin is more even and detailed in the center. Bing's coin has more wear which makes it harder to separate loss to wear and loss to strike but I believe his was better struck than mine when it fell from the dies. Note how his coin shows the staff crossing the body of Venus with more separation than mine. Things like this make me feel OK about piling on another image of the same coin. There is something to be learned by those willing to look. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1012963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3791516, member: 19463"]Sometimes I question whether it is necessary to pile on all our examples of the same coin but I do enjoy seeing the differences that make every ancient coin unique. In this case, my coin demonstrates what we get when the strike was not hard enough to force silver into the high points of the reverse center. Less obvious is the matching weakness in the neck hair curls on the obverse. Of the three, my coin has the best heads and feet on the reverse but Jochen's coin is more even and detailed in the center. Bing's coin has more wear which makes it harder to separate loss to wear and loss to strike but I believe his was better struck than mine when it fell from the dies. Note how his coin shows the staff crossing the body of Venus with more separation than mine. Things like this make me feel OK about piling on another image of the same coin. There is something to be learned by those willing to look. [ATTACH=full]1012963[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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