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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3249188, member: 19463&quot;]There is no statement you can make about &#039;ancients&#039; as a whole.&nbsp; The &#039;fabric&#039; of coins differs from place to place and time to time.&nbsp; Remember the first Greek coins were made 2000 years before the last Byzantines.&nbsp; Septimius Severus was about as long after Julius Caesar as we are after George Washington.&nbsp; It is important to learn what is normal for a coin type and expect specimens to fit into those characteristics.&nbsp; Certainly there are some coins made with domed dies which probably worked better when pushing a lot of metal into a high relief obverse portrait die. </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/fabric.html</a></p><p>My 1999 page needs updating.&nbsp; I have better coins to illustrate the point now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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