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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2323570, member: 19463&quot;]Pellinore&#039;s coin answers the question of the style of Mikey&#039;s coin being odd.&nbsp; The two use the same obverse die suggesting to me that Zeugma contracted out the production of that coin to another mint which also made the Pellimore offering.&nbsp; There is no certainty that the mint was Antioch but it could be a third party or several other suggestions.&nbsp; I believe both coins are good.&nbsp; Other examples of die sharing are known in the Provincial issues.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am no expert in these by any means.&nbsp; At one time there were several US printers that made banknotes for various government entities and private banks.&nbsp; I suspect similar operations were at work for some of these coins but I do not know any details.&nbsp; I suspect that this will be addressed in the forthcoming volumes of the book series Roman Provincial Coinage. </p><p><br /></p><p>A Google search of &#039;Roman Provincial die sharing&#039; shows the subject mentioned in more places than expected but I do not have the books indexed by these hits.&nbsp; </p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=roman%20provincial%20die%20sharing&amp;oq=roman%20provincial%20die%20sharing&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.8219j0j7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=roman%20provincial%20die%20sharing&amp;oq=roman%20provincial%20die%20sharing&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.8219j0j7" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome-psyapi2&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=roman provincial die sharing&amp;oq=roman provincial die sharing&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57.8219j0j7</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Studying these coins properly is more complex than I am.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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