Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wow, that's a beautiful coin! The truth is that nobody will know for sure who engraved the dies... Besides, maybe his eyesight wasn't as bad as Gallatin presumed. The Euainatos Decadrachm (Syracuse) is a beauty. And to be On Topic: It's the photography of coins that brought me to Leica! I was working with Contax at the time, but needed TTL Spotmetering. It was either the Olympus OM-4 or the Leica R4s - I got a better deal on the Leica and never looked back. That was in 86. All the best from the south of France! Tarek ------------------------------------------------- Tarek Charara <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> NO ARCHIVE Le 20 mars 10 ? 22:51, John Nebel a ?crit : > Tarek, > > Wasn't it Gallatin who speculated that the Euainatos delta > decadrachm dies may not have been engraved by him as his eyesight > couldn't have been acute enough at that point in his life? Of > course Gallatin's speculation depends on his die study and its > proposed chronology. > > To consider another photo, the reverse of this 1/6 stater is likely > inspired by Kimon and is quite amazing - the siren on Athena's > helmet is about 1mm across. That makes the siren's eyeball something > like 1/10 mm. > > http://www.ancientmoney.org/east/lycia.html > > John