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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fugio1, post: 3109276, member: 89970&quot;]Here is my Cr. 79/1, the Earliest Roman serratus,&nbsp; (Mattingly’s class I).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]788648[/ATTACH] </p><p>Many plausible explanations have been put forward for the purpose of the serrated edge, but the technical process is a mystery. Mattingly suggests the evidence indicates a manual process, where the serrations were applied (by hand?) to the flans before striking, but logically the economy of a completely manual process makes little sense.&nbsp; Hundreds of thousands if not millions of serrati were produced, so some mechanical device must have been used to produce the serrated flans.&nbsp; Mechanical processes by their nature produce repeatable patterns, which would suggest that some of these coins would present identical serration patterns from one coin to the next, but I&#039;ve never seen a duplicate.&nbsp; I’m unaware of any studies that have revealed identical patterns on serrati, but my research is far from exhaustive.&nbsp; Is anyone aware of scholarship on the topic of Roman Republican serrati production?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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