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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3947898, member: 19463&quot;]Hippocamp</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040279[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Griffen</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040280[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Centaur</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040281[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Panther - This specimen is not very pleasing to the eye but it came to me having previously done time in the collection of President John Quincy Adams.&nbsp; He had many nice coins and piles like this. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1040282[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>A question I have not researched:&nbsp; Is there any pattern to which types are easy to find in presentable condition and which may be common but scarce well struck and in high grade?&nbsp; Certainly anyone would be glad to have a boar as nice as the one shown but many of the types do exist in reasonably fine shape with a little searching.&nbsp;&nbsp; Were all struck at more or less the same time or do we see some later and more hurriedly produced?&nbsp; This was a time when quality was falling quickly eventually leading to the reform of Aurelian a few years later.&nbsp; Is there a pattern in the decline?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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