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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5317951, member: 19463"]One of the things you have learned in life is how to read handwriting. Once that meant your grandmothers' handwriting on Christmas letters. Now it means a few quirks of Roman coins in a few periods. You think that R is too much like an A??? have you seen the A's that look like H or a handful of Greek letters that you must learn to appreciate the subject. Ancient coins are a great hobby for people that like to learn and decipher codes.</p><p><br /></p><p>I fear you will not enjoy the hobby until you accept the fact that subtle differences are the best part. It is rare to find two ancient coins exactly alike in every possible way. Even those struck from the same dies will differ in ways you will learn to recognize.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Caesar Augustus (the member, not the Emperor) has it right. Listen to him (especially when he says one of my web pages is 'excellent'<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). Thanks for the mention, CA.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not collected modern coins for over 50 years and never was a fan of errors but I do believe that over half of all ancient coins have some situation that would be considered a collectable error on a machine made coin. Clashed dies are extremely common to the point that there are clashes to be found on a good percentage of some issues. Modern clashes are generally weak while some of the ancient ones produced letters easier to read than the intended ones. I'm not saying you need to collect ancient errors but you will need to learn something about them if only to avoid them. </p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorite die clashes is on this Constantine RT (Rome mint 3rd or tertia workshop) which is a double strike and shows the clash on the reverse offset just like expected from the double strike. This coin proves that the clash was a feature of the die and not damage to the individual coin.</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/2arclash.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 5317951, member: 19463"]One of the things you have learned in life is how to read handwriting. Once that meant your grandmothers' handwriting on Christmas letters. Now it means a few quirks of Roman coins in a few periods. You think that R is too much like an A??? have you seen the A's that look like H or a handful of Greek letters that you must learn to appreciate the subject. Ancient coins are a great hobby for people that like to learn and decipher codes. I fear you will not enjoy the hobby until you accept the fact that subtle differences are the best part. It is rare to find two ancient coins exactly alike in every possible way. Even those struck from the same dies will differ in ways you will learn to recognize. Caesar Augustus (the member, not the Emperor) has it right. Listen to him (especially when he says one of my web pages is 'excellent';)). Thanks for the mention, CA. I have not collected modern coins for over 50 years and never was a fan of errors but I do believe that over half of all ancient coins have some situation that would be considered a collectable error on a machine made coin. Clashed dies are extremely common to the point that there are clashes to be found on a good percentage of some issues. Modern clashes are generally weak while some of the ancient ones produced letters easier to read than the intended ones. I'm not saying you need to collect ancient errors but you will need to learn something about them if only to avoid them. One of my favorite die clashes is on this Constantine RT (Rome mint 3rd or tertia workshop) which is a double strike and shows the clash on the reverse offset just like expected from the double strike. This coin proves that the clash was a feature of the die and not damage to the individual coin. [IMG]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/2arclash.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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