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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1148911, member: 19463&quot;]One of the things we ancient collectors have over modern collectors is the variety available to us when it comes to how our coins were made.&nbsp; Today, the vast majority of coins are round and struck between two dies that have been mechanically reproduced with low relief.&nbsp; Blanks are produced by punching disks from thinly rolled out metal.&nbsp; If a coin form survived to be produced in another format, it is terms &#039;odd and curious&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; Before this was settled upon as the best way, there were quite a few experiments and disagreements on what made the best coin.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The cup shaped coins could be made very thin which makes the same amount of metal look larger without being so prone to breakage as the same would have been if flat and had the bonus of being stackable.&nbsp; About the same time these were being made in Europe, some issues in India were regularly struck on dies much larger than the blanks so no single coin had all the die detail reproduced on it.&nbsp; This made counterfeiting a bit harder and produced thick coins that wore longer before becoming unserviceable.&nbsp; There are other types that have &#039;relief&#039; cut more as line drawings which can wear down without loss of details as seen in modern style coins.&nbsp; Others received their designs by punches on flat sheet metal so the design is below the surface instead of raised above it.&nbsp; Occasionally we see hints of some of these old ideas on new coins but most follow the standard format.&nbsp; Boring?</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I really should update my &#039;fabric&#039; page to show some of these very &#039;different&#039; coins.</p><p><a href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/fabric.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dougsmith.ancients.info/fabric.html" rel="nofollow">http://dougsmith.ancients.info/fabric.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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