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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1017362, member: 19463&quot;]I don&#039;t have the experience with these to give meaningful answers but my amateur observation is that it is not hard to find Emesa examples of more than one reverse with an obverse so it probably points to a mint practice.&nbsp; What I do not see is chaining of obverse and reverse dies as seen in Syracuse where you find an obverse replaced in the middle of a reverse die life: o1/r1, o1/r2, o1/r3, o2/r3, o2/r4 etc.&nbsp; It has not been as easy for me to find a reverse die used with two obverses.&nbsp; If the dies were used sequentially I would expect to see deterioration of the obverse so that one of the six of my coins might show a seriously faulted obverse die compared to another with a fresh one.&nbsp; I don&#039;t pretend to understand the pattern but am more likely to tend toward something like three dies used in rotation by the day shift and three different ones used by the night shift (I have absolutely no reason to believe the mint worked shifts - this is just an example of a pattern that would explain so many reverse dies).&nbsp; I also lack coins showing use of dies until failure.&nbsp; Perhaps these dies were not used long enough to show deterioration and failure but made in sets with the intent of producing a larger variety of reverses?&nbsp; We can not assume that the only reason for replacing a die is that it was worn out.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I also find it interesting that I found my six different reverses but have not taken note of an example of this obverse die used with a second reverse die matching the type of one of mine.&nbsp; I saw others that were die duplicates (both sides) but not a second, different, for example, Victory walking die.&nbsp; Note my other Victory is standing on a globe rather than walking so the two Victories are not matching.&nbsp; Perhaps this only means I did not look carefully enough at enough coins.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Whoever makes sense of all this will have to study a thousand times as many coins as I have seen; they will need to keep careful notes and employ scientific methods to do a full die study.&nbsp; Who has the resources, intellect and inclination to do this for these little coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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