Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Tarek Charara wrote: > Oh, that depends on the artist! I have seen one decadrachm collection in > my life (in the 80s), about 30 extraordinairy coins... The finesse of > these coins was as good as the finesse of the tetradrachms, depending on > the artist. Something you see with all the ancient coins. These antique > coins are even more amazing when you consider that the artists did not > have all the modern tools to do the engravings! > > That's a nice solidus! Mine is a Focas > <http://ventesuroffres.free.fr/images/monnaies/vso/v05/v05_0565.jpg> > > All the best from the south of France! > > Tarek > > ------------------------------------------------- > Tarek Charara > <http://www.pix-that-stimulate.com> > > NO ARCHIVE > > > > Le 20 mars 10 ? 19:32, John Nebel a ?crit : > >> Tarek, >> >> Decadrachms are certainly bigger, but they don't they often lack the >> finesse of the smaller coins? >> >> A solidus link - your remark about your solidus made me think of this: >> >> http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v13n10a13.html >> >> John > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information