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obolos 19 8 May 2021
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PHRYGIA. Cotiaeum. Claudius, 41-54. Assarion (Bronze, 13 mm, 5.54 g, 1 h), struck under the magistrate Varus. KOTIAEIΣ KΛAYΔION KAIΣAPA Laureate head of Claudius to right. Rev. EΠI OYAPOY YIOY ΠOΛEΩΣ Zeus standing left, raising his right hand. BMC 28. SNG Copenhagen 320. SNG von Aulock 3777 and 8401. RPC I 3220. Glossy dark brown-green surfaces, with types of excellent style. Light porosity, otherwise, very fine.
Ex Obolos 13, 2 July 2019, 546.
An experienced collector of paintings once said that the way to tell a bad artist was the way he/she did hands. No matter how well done the rest of a body might be, if the hands looked like claws or flippers, well, the artist wasn't good! On this coin we have a splendid head of Claudius and a fine looking Zeus, BUT Zeus' left hand has only THREE fingers...and his feet look like hooves. Yet it still is a very nice coin!
Ex Obolos 13, 2 July 2019, 546.
An experienced collector of paintings once said that the way to tell a bad artist was the way he/she did hands. No matter how well done the rest of a body might be, if the hands looked like claws or flippers, well, the artist wasn't good! On this coin we have a splendid head of Claudius and a fine looking Zeus, BUT Zeus' left hand has only THREE fingers...and his feet look like hooves. Yet it still is a very nice coin!