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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 2158256, member: 56859&quot;]But why do it in the first place?&nbsp; Years after the original issue was made did they look in their store room and say, &quot;Whoops, look at all these RPC 2994 issues we forgot to disburse!&nbsp; Golly, the old proconsul is dead so we can&#039;t use them.&nbsp; Let&#039;s make some complicated dies, redoing only one of the legends, carefully reheat the flans, painstakingly position the ring dies, whack away, and then send them out good as new?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems like it would be less work to just engrave completely new dies-- melt down the old flans if economy was the goal.&nbsp; Maybe there was something special, something nostalgic, or some political expedient that made re-using the old coins sensible?</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d love to know the reason for the re-do as well as exactly how they did it.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As for a lip around the edge, based on the existing examples that wasn&#039;t how it happened.&nbsp; There was no collar.&nbsp; They had to deal with restriking coins of irregular flan shape, inconsistent size, and poor centering.&nbsp; Tall order!</p><p><br /></p><p>I do agree with you on our tendency to underestimate the ingenuity and capabilities of ancient people though.&nbsp;&nbsp; Don&#039;t you wish you could go back in time and prevent the loss of the Library of Alexandria?&nbsp; Sigh.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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