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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1017386, member: 26302&quot;]Could the die life of the reverse have something to do with the Roman &quot;invention&quot; of hinged dies? I thought most Greeks were struck with a hand punch for the reverse, and anyone who has done something like this knows that this punch will break fairly quickly. With a hinged punch, you take away the variability of strike location, therefor allowing the reverse punch to have a longer lifespan, though of course not nearly as long as the stationary die embedded into a mass.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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