I've been thinking of buying a Greek coin off of FAC recently after noticing the reverse die looks similar to the one I bought off Z Gallery. The few differences are the magistrates name and reverse meander pattern. I don't have enough experience to believe that this insanely rare or quite common. What are the odds that it could be the same engraver? Interesting to me, none the less. This is the one I own: This is the other that I'm thinking of purchasing: What are others opinions?
I think it is highly likely they were from the same engraver. Issues of Greek copper coins were not so large that they needed a huge mint with several engravers just to keep up like the Romans did. I would consider those two to be "duplicates". With about 100,000 different ancient-coin types (not counting control mark varieties) I would go for something different, rather than something much the same.
@Jbruce - Warren wrote this article on rarity in ancients I think I suggested before for you to read. fyi here it is again if you haven't checked it out: http://augustuscoins.com/ed/numis/rarity.html
I'm not talking about rarity in general. I'm asking if the same engraver could have created both dies to the two coins shown because of the different magistrates names on the reverse? Each reverse has a different magistrates name but the bulls on the reverse are near identical.
