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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3872326, member: 82322&quot;]It is possible to do a die study without owning the coins yourself.&nbsp; I own none of the pictured coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>There was a big group of Apollonia Pontika drachms with strange blunders including two dots on Medusa&#039;s tongue.&nbsp; A huge number of examples of this die showed up at the same time, which sometimes means a counterfeit.&nbsp; So I was concerned.</p><p><br /></p><p>I worried these were poor copies of a coin in the British Museum collection that had been recently been published in an SNG.&nbsp; <a href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0160" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0160" rel="nofollow">http://www.s391106508.websitehome.co.uk/PHP/SNG_PHP/04_03_Reply.php?Series=SNGuk&amp;AccessionNo=0901_0160</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I found many examples from the same die.&nbsp; I made a series showing the snakes slowly deforming.&nbsp; The most deformed example looked a great deal like the example in the British Museum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an animation showing that process, made by combining some of the best examples I could find</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1023146[/ATTACH] </p><p>I suspect it started out being re-engraved over another example.&nbsp; That&#039;s why it looks like there is doubling in the snakes.&nbsp; The coin wasn&#039;t struck twice.&nbsp; New snakes were engraved over the old ones, poorly.</p><p><br /></p><p>(Note: There may be cast counterfeits from this die now.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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