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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7857098, member: 19463&quot;]If you just want a die match of any sort, it will be easier to find in a series that used fewer dies than Claudius or any late Roman.&nbsp; The other thing to seek is a die that is easily recognizable because of some unique feature.&nbsp; My personal best is shown by these six denarii of Septimius Severus but I have been shown a set with twice as many with all different reverses from my page on die links.</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/die03.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, die duplicates (both sides the same) are easier to find than one sided die links in some cases since thousands of coins were made at one time and chance might save a &#039;mint bag&#039; potful of coins that remained together and never circulated.&nbsp; Some rare coins used very few dies.&nbsp; I was once told that every Septimius Severus legionary of LEG XXII PRI used the same obverse and one of two reverses but recently there has been another die for each side appearing on the market which I have not yet obtained and which I have not seen matched with the ones I have.&nbsp; This photo shows my five using both &#039;old&#039; reverses (two of one and three of the other) with the one obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1353885[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Like anything else, it is easier to find something if you know where to look.&nbsp; Finding a Claudius II pair strikes me as an accomplishment but I did not even look to see if I happened to have that die (the scholar is dead, long live the old fool).&nbsp; I wonder how many people here checked theirs for a match.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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