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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3514254, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t think so.&nbsp; On some issues certain officina struck for one ruler and others for others so you could make an educated guess.&nbsp; RIC lists these as a free for all. </p><p><br /></p><p>One way of guessing which die was on top is to see whether you have obverse of reverse brockages since the standard theory is that the coin stuck in the top die.&nbsp; There are some rulers that I am sure struck some coins in both ways and some coins were made with pincher dies which might allow either (more likely neither) brockage.&nbsp; I believe it is important in every case to remember that the mints of antiquity were not required to follow rules invented by scholars and hobbyists of today.&nbsp; We have to allow for exceptions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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