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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3504539, member: 75937&quot;]Here are a couple of coins produced by the Rome mint about a century apart, but they seem to reveal the sequence by which engravers produced dies. I propose that the devices were engraved first and then the inscriptions were added. We can see this illustrated by coins in which the inscription is modified to fit the space remaining after the devices were engraved.</p><p><br /></p><p>A case involving an obverse. The poor fellow tasked with fitting LVCILLAE AVG ANTONINI AVG F around the portrait of Lucilla decided to just engrave the final G and F over the drapery of the bust:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]929236[/ATTACH] </p><p>Lucilla, AD 164-169, RIC 788.</p><p><br /></p><p>A case involving the reverse. It appears the sequence of engraving the die was as follows: The figure of Laetitia was engraved first, followed by the placement of the officina mark V in the right field, and lastly, the reverse inscription was fit into the space available:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/gallienus-laetitia-avgg-antoninianus-jpg.829331/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Gallienus, AD 253-268. RIC 226F.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your examples illustrating the sequence in which a coin die&#039;s features were engraved (or anything you feel is relevant).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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