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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tenacious, post: 1015793, member: 14553&quot;]Another contributing factor is the die position. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a disparity in life between the die placed in the anvil, usually the obverse, which lasts longer, and the die in the punch, usually the reverse die, which break more quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Because they are embedded in an anvil, obverse dies tend to outlast reverse (punch) dies by a factor of seven or eight to one.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know you know this already because you mentioned it on your site<a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/voc.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/voc.html" rel="nofollow"> on this page under the Corinth stater.</a>&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;In most cases, the more important type was placed on the obverse and given the anvil position (anvil dies lasted longer than punch dies).&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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