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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3198161, member: 19463&quot;]What would happen to the statistics if the ancients count included all those posts we made before they gave us a separate section?</p><p><br /></p><p>In ancients, there are reasons for die studies other than creating rarities to sell at a premium.&nbsp; We can establish the way that mint operated from the order of dies used.&nbsp; We can find die links that suggest the two linked dies were used at the same mint.&nbsp; We can establish cases where two cities shared a mint striking for both.&nbsp; Modern coins come with records that explain all these things in language any reader can understand.&nbsp; Ancients yield secrets through reverse engineering, hard work or dumb luck.&nbsp; This may relate to why some of us have problems with collectors whose only interest in the coins is now much they can profit from reselling them in fancier packaging.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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