BEAD SEPARATION
Usually a reference to the quality of the strike on a coin that has a border pattern of beads. Coins poorly struck at the rims will have beads that are mushy and run together, i.e. are indistinct from each other.
925 CHEVRON BEAD, Africa. Large red, white and blue bead. A few casting defects and a bit discolored but seldom offered these days. $50 ...
Goat's bead in incuse square.
AR Obol.
Stork plunging his bill into an oenochoë. [Imhoof, Mon. gr., Pl. C. 24.] ...
- round bead-like decorations on the surface of a coin. When it is placed on a coin for artistic reasons, it is often a circle of beads on the face of a coin, usually near the rim or edge. bicentennial, or bicentenial coins ...
Beardless bead (Theseus ?) within square frame of maeander pattern. (the labyrinth).
AR Stater.
Id.
In the inner bead ring there is open space under the T, while three beads are crowded together just past the S.
necklace of the Queen is shown as a large bead, or a small bead
variety, and the number '5' in the date is either a pointed 5 or a
blunt 5. With all combinations of the beads and the fives, that is
four different varieties.
Obverse: Small trident with a bead on each side enclosed in a small circle, surrounded by script and enclosed by a square with an opening in the middle of each side wherefrom two closed, ...
Melia is also the name of a genus of trees in the mahogany family Meliaceae, notably the Chinaberry or Bead tree Melia azedarach.
..... Click the link for more information. Meliboea In Greek mythology, Meliboea referred to two different people.
On the genuine coin, the stem of the P and the following colon are both aligned with gaps between rim bead. On the forgeries, the stem of the P and the colon are aligned with beads.
Krause states that markings are found on some coins (tiny raised "v" on bottom center of the bust, tiny incuse "C" on a bead of the inner circle below the cetner of the date) but I haven't seen much trace of these markings.
Crete, Polyrhenium AR Hemidrachm. ca 330-270 BC. Head of Dictynna left, in bead necklace & pendant earring, hair confined in sakkos / filleted bull head facing. Le Rider pl. xxix, 8.
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Then, the gold ring and platinum core are simultaneously stamped forming an annular bead where the two precious metals meet.
If so are they of dots or lines, or foliate or bead-and-reel? Here we may be speaking of the style of a mint as well as the style and skill of an engraver.
A trained reckoner could probably do it much faster, although a counter-board was always slower than a bead-frame abacus, for pushing is done more quickly than putting down and taking away.
You can see that some of the bead in the border did not turn out and there are a few tiny air holes that couldn't be repaired by sanding. These will be sealed in or shaped with clay and the whole piece will receive a varnish finish.
Trading routes centered on Zuni Pueblo in the Four Corners region of the southwest and the Mojave bead route to the California coast were incorporated into the Old Spanish Trail (now a National Park Service historic trail).
It passes through the upper loop of her bun, piercing the third lowest bead in her hair tie, then passing through her hair, the Y of LIBERTY, and the curls just below her ear. The crack then crosses her neck, terminating on the point of her bust.
…There is no example of a coin, in any series, showing double punching of the dentils [except for a single example of our 1793 number 8 with an extra bead on the obverse] which would indicate a twin punch.
 See also: Struck, Reverse, Revers, Obverse, Mint
  
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