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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 4718272, member: 74282"]I think the same reasoning can be applied even if the forger was creating new dies. Such forgers' operations likely had multiple such dies, and it would be easy to mix up similar dies such as these. When I collected silver imitations I had one such coin in my collection where a forger had combined an obverse of another issue with a reverse of L Thorius Balbus. I was aware of a die matched coin with the correct obverse. The forger evidently mixed up the dies later.</p><p><br /></p><p>The control mark rules are apparent to collectors today with nice reference books like Crawford but I'm not so sure they would have been as apparent to a forger or merchant 2000 years ago since plenty of contemporary issues did not use matched dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 4718272, member: 74282"]I think the same reasoning can be applied even if the forger was creating new dies. Such forgers' operations likely had multiple such dies, and it would be easy to mix up similar dies such as these. When I collected silver imitations I had one such coin in my collection where a forger had combined an obverse of another issue with a reverse of L Thorius Balbus. I was aware of a die matched coin with the correct obverse. The forger evidently mixed up the dies later. The control mark rules are apparent to collectors today with nice reference books like Crawford but I'm not so sure they would have been as apparent to a forger or merchant 2000 years ago since plenty of contemporary issues did not use matched dies.[/QUOTE]
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