5 Leg Camel

astrorat

For those of you who like varieties, here is an ancient precursor to the 2 1/2, 3, and "other-legged" Buffalo nickels...the 5 legged camel!

Note the engravers error and subsequent "cover-up" resulting in the shadow of a 5th leg on this drachm from Tragan (issued in Bostra) AD 98-117.

Lane

Edited to add...Sorry, but I could not figure out how to post the image.

direwolf1972

here ya go

Swampboy

Here you go Lane...

lordmarcovan

Nice Trajan provincial!

The re-engraving sorta gives the illusion of motion to the camel's legs.

astrorat

Thanks, Direwolf and Swampboy...

Is there a link to instructions someplace?

Lane

astrorat

<< <i>Nice Trajan provincial!

The re-engraving sorta gives the illusion of motion to the camel's legs. >>



Thanks...yeah, you're right...it does give a sense of motion...cool.

Lane

Swampboy

<< <i>Thanks, Direwolf and Swampboy...

Is there a link to instructions someplace?

Lane >>




Photobucket

Lane,
That's the link to Photobucket which is a free popular site for hosting images.
Once you upload a picture to your album you just cut and paste the link.
Feel free to pm me if I can help.

astrorat

Okay...I thought there was a different procedure on this board (other than "attaching"). I'll look into Photobucket.

Lane

Shamika

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

ricko

Interesting... mint errors even then... Cheers, RickO

ProofArtworkonCircs

Both illustrations look like the same coin right down to the tarnish spots. Is there a story here?

tydye

Thats cool!

direwolf1972

<< <i>Thanks, Direwolf and Swampboy...

Is there a link to instructions someplace?

Lane >>



Nice coin by the way. I dabble a bit in ancients too. I've got a few that when I finally get my copy stand I'll post a few favorites.

As far as linking photo's I 've heard of people having their photobuckets disappear all of a sudden on them (see yesterdays post on photobucket). My vote has always been for a cheap website hosting package and domain name. When done right you can get out for under $35 a year and have know that your photo's will stay up for as long or as little time as you like.

I'm not sure if photobucket does ftp or not since I dont use them but also its a lot easier to open cuteftp and upload than wade thru several pages of to upload a photo (like you have to do at yahoo or other services I've used).

edix2001

Ron Landis made seven of these:

astrorat

<< <i>Interesting... mint errors even then... Cheers, RickO >>



Actually, there are some really cool ancient errors and they are usually fairly reasonably priced. I especially like Roman Republican brockages.

Lane

astrorat

<< <i>Both illustrations look like the same coin right down to the tarnish spots. Is there a story here? >>



Well, the story is that they are the some coin. Two folks provided me the great service of posting the image for me.

Lane