NewStyleKing Posted April 18 · Member Share Posted April 18 (edited) Edited April 18 by NewStyleKing 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted April 18 · Member Author Share Posted April 18 Above is a Thompson #1, It is Thompson obverse type 3. So far I have found this obverse mated with mated with 6 other reverses, I think this maybe with yet another! What do you think...my eyes are dull I cannot see! What it means quite simply that there was a crazy amount of reverses to the one obverse.If people think it is then I shall add it to the picture above where my extensive researches has taken me. Numbers 1 & 2 are mated with the first Thompson obverses for which I have never found examples except in the ANS collection, so obverse 3 seems to the daddy of them all. Thanks in anticipation! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted April 18 · Member Author Share Posted April 18 Is it one of these? I'm not sure, but I don't think so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deinomenid Posted April 18 · Supporter Share Posted April 18 4 hours ago, NewStyleKing said: What it means quite simply that there was a crazy amount of reverses to the one obverse. She had 473 obverse dies for 3,866 rev at one stage. Not sure how that has changed since. The problem with this and the other question is we usually rely for answers on New Style questions on err @NewStyleKing! 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted April 18 · Member Author Share Posted April 18 (edited) It will have changed almost the moment she published. |Holloway in his review of NSSCA says he went into some auction catalogues and immediately found new combinations! What I did in writing some New coin types in the Athens early NewStyles type was looking to see how rare they were and if Thompson #4 was a single year production or two? Ans; Thompson #1, obverse 1 and 2, no new coins since 1961 I could find in my searches, however obverse 3 seems to have 8 or 9 reverses. Maybe these minted after the first two apparent tentative tries....who knows! Thompson#2, New Obverse and some reverses. Same #3, . #4 Thompson herself found a new obverse but the ANS couldn't find the photographs, and no I am no wiser that it was a 1 year or a 2 year production or no! #5, Since 1961, a few more coins as surfaced, 2 more obverses and reverses, but still a rare coin, but still not rare enough for an imitation to be produced! The NewStyle really took off at Thompson#6 Edited April 20 by NewStyleKing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Conduitt Posted April 18 · Supporter Share Posted April 18 (edited) I'm confused in that you say there are 6 reverses but you have 8 photos of reverses (and 10 in the first image)? 1 hour ago, NewStyleKing said: Is it one of these? I'm not sure, but I don't think so! Of the ones in the post: 1 - the wreath is angled differently at the top. 2 - the A on the right is in a different place. 3 - the A N on the left are in different places. 4 - the E is in a different place and the owl's talons are further over the jar. 5 - the wreath is angled differently at the top. 6 - the jar is lower down and the owl's talons are further over the jar. 7 - the N is in a different place. 8 - the owl is smaller and the E is in a different place. I think that leaves these two, which I think you're saying aren't paired with this obverse. They aren't the same as your new reverse anyway as the lettering is placed differently: So the reverse is new. Edited April 18 by John Conduitt 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted April 18 · Member Author Share Posted April 18 (edited) Thanks for that @John Conduitt. I'm not too good at the melding/merging of photographs etc, but what you have done, thanks, shows that Indeed it is yet another new reverse and I will enter it in my academia.edu paper . Edited April 19 by NewStyleKing 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewStyleKing Posted April 19 · Member Author Share Posted April 19 paper on academia amended! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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