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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1534442, member: 19463&quot;]I was once told that the reason for certain later Indian coins being struck on dies much larger than the coins was that no one coin could be used to produce a set of counterfeit dies.&nbsp; We recently saw here a struck counterfeit of Trajan, I believe, where the flan was larger than the copy die so there was a place were the design stopped abruptly before the edge of the flan.&nbsp; Cast counterfeits give themselves away by being off center all the same way.&nbsp; Copy dies made from several coins would be harder to execute so the fake coins would not all be suspiciously alike.&nbsp; It is an interesting theory.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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