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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3327606, member: 19463&quot;]My latest acquisition came from a very old friend (take that as you wish but I have known him a while) who commented that I was suprised I ordered that coin.&nbsp; That got me started wondering if he knew more about what I find attractive or desirable in a coin than I do.&nbsp; I&#039;ll describe a few of its features but that does not mean that any of those features cause it to be attractive to me.&nbsp; I can find something interesting about most ancient coins.&nbsp; Since I got the coin in the mail yesterday, I discovered a few other things about it that I find interesting but that may say as much about the nature of my disease as it does about the coin.&nbsp; Some of you know I have been taking some close ups of small sections of some of my coins.&nbsp; You probably suspect I am on the payroll of microscope manufacturers (I&#039;m not but if you are a manufacturer and want to give me a new trinocular stereoscopic scope, I&#039;ll take it).&nbsp; I&#039;ll start by showing a small part of the obverse of the coin.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]881700[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of things to see in this photo.&nbsp; My favorite is the two rows of three dots which I believe to be the double pearls mentioned in BMCRE as one of the options for coins of this ruler and period even though they did not have this reverse listed with that option.&nbsp; You may or may not know that I think assigning importance to the kind of hair hardware shown and requiring us to decide what we have before we get a catalog number is one of the reasons I have so little respect for collecting by catalog number.&nbsp; This image also shows some artifacts of striking and toning that I find interesting.&nbsp; Sure you can see such things &#039;in hand&#039; and in low resolution photos but I like my photos better.&nbsp;&nbsp; Does this photo show why I liked this coin?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; My wife just told me it is time to make supper (my turn) so I will have to add more to this later.&nbsp; I know one of you can ID this coin from this teaser and most won&#039;t read this far in one of my run-on threads so I&#039;ll leave with the question of what this photo shows that may or may not be of interest.&nbsp; Ruler? Date? Would a real expert (not I!!!) be able to ID this coin from this photo?&nbsp; Very possibly![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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