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<p>[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3018130, member: 74282"]There is another possibility: transfer dies. Transfer dies were in use by forgers then and they're still in use by forgers today. Various processes can be used to make them but like casts they result in a stylistically correct piece, though they leave behind some evidence most of the time. It's not uncommon to see fourées where types originally minted decades apart are combined by a forger pairing the wrong dies. Some of these are in excellent style and likely from transfer dies, and there's no reason a mint worker had to have anything to do with their creation. </p><p><br /></p><p>You can see some examples of this phenomenon of fourées struck with transfer dies on Phil Davis's excellent website on imitations of Roman Republic denarii <a href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/platedroman.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://rrimitations.ancients.info/platedroman.html" rel="nofollow">here.</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="red_spork, post: 3018130, member: 74282"]There is another possibility: transfer dies. Transfer dies were in use by forgers then and they're still in use by forgers today. Various processes can be used to make them but like casts they result in a stylistically correct piece, though they leave behind some evidence most of the time. It's not uncommon to see fourées where types originally minted decades apart are combined by a forger pairing the wrong dies. Some of these are in excellent style and likely from transfer dies, and there's no reason a mint worker had to have anything to do with their creation. You can see some examples of this phenomenon of fourées struck with transfer dies on Phil Davis's excellent website on imitations of Roman Republic denarii [URL='http://rrimitations.ancients.info/platedroman.html']here.[/URL][/QUOTE]
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