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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4514844, member: 110350&quot;]Obviously it&#039;s impossible for some coins for which only a couple of examples are known, like the two of Silbannacus, unless one of these people happens to be the owner of the one that&#039;s apparently in private hands!&nbsp; But I think it&#039;s close to impossible as a practical matter even if you exclude such coins.&nbsp; Does anyone have a rough estimate of how many different Roman coin types supposedly exist?&nbsp; Sear lists close to 22,000 in his five volumes, and ERIC II lists more than 60,000.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how many are listed in all the volumes of RIC, many of which are decades out of date.&nbsp; And then if you started adding all the known Roman Provincial coins, how many more would that be? </p><p><br /></p><p>And, of course, any answer depends on how you define &quot;different.&quot;&nbsp; What if you started counting every difference between two dies and every different die combination as a separate type (as in differentiating how much, if any, hair does Marcus Aurelius have on his chin in a given example of RIC III Antoninus Pius 429A&nbsp; [see the discussion at <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bearded-and-beardless-marcus-aurelius-portraits-under-single-catalog-number.354332/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bearded-and-beardless-marcus-aurelius-portraits-under-single-catalog-number.354332/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/bearded-and-beardless-marcus-aurelius-portraits-under-single-catalog-number.354332/</a>] -- going well beyond draped vs. draped and cuirassed vs. draped on the far shoulder vs. draped on the near shoulder vs. &quot;seen from behind&quot; vs. &quot;seen from the front,&quot; which some people think goes too far to begin with? Then there would be hundreds of thousands of &quot;different&quot; Roman coin types.&nbsp; Not even a billionaire could live long enough to track all of them down![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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