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<p>[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3018003, member: 93416"]Yes - I would more or less go along with that. I do not have specialist knowledge of Greek or Roman examples - but I have seen many of these things over the years - of ancient and medieval periods, from Europe, Persia and India. My primary observation is that in most cases the style of the dies is really excellent - so good its seems likely they were from official dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thus I came to the conclusion that in most cases this is a case of mint workers making foil wrapped flans at home, smuggling them into the mint, and most probably having them to be struck within the system and going out the door with a real one in exchange. Or some such.</p><p><br /></p><p>All this really tells us is that some employees sometime go to quite big lengths to steal from their employers, and always have. Its not surprising or profound, and so yes, speaking personally, there are other things we can try to learn from coins which interest me more.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example - was Pliny "hopelessly confused", or rather, was he telling fibs, about Graditianus? And if the latter, why?</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="EWC3, post: 3018003, member: 93416"]Yes - I would more or less go along with that. I do not have specialist knowledge of Greek or Roman examples - but I have seen many of these things over the years - of ancient and medieval periods, from Europe, Persia and India. My primary observation is that in most cases the style of the dies is really excellent - so good its seems likely they were from official dies. Thus I came to the conclusion that in most cases this is a case of mint workers making foil wrapped flans at home, smuggling them into the mint, and most probably having them to be struck within the system and going out the door with a real one in exchange. Or some such. All this really tells us is that some employees sometime go to quite big lengths to steal from their employers, and always have. Its not surprising or profound, and so yes, speaking personally, there are other things we can try to learn from coins which interest me more. For example - was Pliny "hopelessly confused", or rather, was he telling fibs, about Graditianus? And if the latter, why? Rob[/QUOTE]
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