Indeed, mine holds its own among those on CA, from which I have downloaded three nice ones:
Antioch, or related, with
Apollo leaning nonchalantly, as on mine;
Teos, with elegant detail and more fully rounded modeling of the thigh;
Sardes, perfectly elegant and carefully modeled (also didn't sell when listed).
**You are right: the
Antioch ones are those with the strongly leaning, nonchalant seeming posture: the only ones. They also have a complementary tilt of the
head. I
had never looked at them
mint by
mint before.
Antioch, perhaps, minted the largest quantity, because, undeniably, the modeling is not so
complete or subtle, the thigh having a hint of cookie-cutout (so has the figure of the deceased on the famous
Stele of Hegeso from the Athenian Kerameikos). But
Antioch "gets it". Was the statue theirs, I wonder?
**The balance is something that only
good artists "got": leaning contrapposto, with something less substantial seeming than a tree.
Teos and
Sardes make the figure less relaxed. As for inferior mints... But it helps (
photographers take note) if you respect the line that the engraver gave us, the line that the figure and the tripod stand on. On any even halfway decent coin the figures profit from your making the groundline exactly parallel to the bottom edge of your image.
But you both are very kind! When the accession snapshot, added above, with the Nikon S-1 (!!!), with mere pre-set white balance and only a single Ott-lite, is competitive with all the successive efforts, it drives me crazy. The S-1 is the 1cm thick pocket camera I got for fun and only used when I
had to send the Nikon 5700 back for a factory recall!
I post (remember copyright:
fair use must be respected) a pane of 3 specimens from CA.
