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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;YOC, post: 1833462, member: 58941&quot;]I am inclined to agree.....as well as the engravers own style there would have been styles for each mint/workshop, but this was probably just because the engravers learnt their trade from the engravers around them and so copied their styles, and this would have continued for generations.</p><p>It is possible to have a good guess at which mint certain URBS Roma coins came from by the helmet style and the shape of the wolf, again style copied from other engravers.</p><p>I have read elsewhere that an example of copying what came before, is the dot often seen in the centre of LRB&#039;s.&nbsp; This was probably the hole made when the engraver used a compass to create the circle of lettering or of the image.&nbsp; usually this would have been filled in, but once or twice was not and so a dot was produced&nbsp; on the coin and subsequently copied with the engraver believing it to be part of the design. </p><p>Interesting discussion though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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