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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7436750, member: 96635"]Very interesting, thanks for the write up. These Athenian imitations are obscure.</p><p>The engraver seems to have copied the original Athenian tetradrachm directly on the die, since the reverse is struck mirrored (the coin design is always mirrored from the die). I saw this as well on Seleukid imitations from Phoenicia.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7436750, member: 96635"]Very interesting, thanks for the write up. These Athenian imitations are obscure. The engraver seems to have copied the original Athenian tetradrachm directly on the die, since the reverse is struck mirrored (the coin design is always mirrored from the die). I saw this as well on Seleukid imitations from Phoenicia.[/QUOTE]
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