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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3197784, member: 19463&quot;]For some reason this reminds me of my favorite college professor who was asked if Homer actually wrote the Iliad and Odyssey.&nbsp; He answered, &quot;Or some other Greek by the same name.&quot;&nbsp; The point is we can never know for any given work just what was done that produced the end result and need to be careful not to jump to conclusions that mint A did things the same way that mint B did.&nbsp; I always like to tr to spot &#039;same hand&#039; coins but have to admit they could be evidence of two students of the same master, the master and pupil or even the result of a workshop team effort.&nbsp; We can not prove that any die was done by just one hand.&nbsp; If I were running the operation and had apprentices to train, I could see having one do the hair and another the faces while a third did only lettering and a new kid put in the circle of dots.&nbsp; If you study the operation of modern art masters like Rodin you find the master&#039;s name on many things he never, himself, touched.&nbsp; Certainly there were operations with only one engraver and others with a large staff.&nbsp; In this case, I agree there is enough shown to support calling it &#039;same hand&#039; but I hope we realize when we answer any question of this type we could be dealing with two (or more) Greeks with the &#039;same name&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>For certain! </p><p><br /></p><p>I can not see how anyone could collect a specific series intently without having such thoughts but have been told by my &#039;betters&#039; that such questions are a waste of time.&nbsp; I still have my favorites but mine are a century after the last Flavian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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