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Message:: [QUOTE="philologus_1, post: 3588909, member: 92212"]1) "If you find a die match this reinforces that fact that the coin is genuine"Well-chosen words. It does not guarantee authenticity, but it does contribute reinforcement to genuineness. (After all, obviously two fakes from the same dies would match.) 2) "The 'cool' factor (not to be minimized) that you have obtained a coin that was struck at a very similar time (hours/days?) to another coin in your collection (or another collection/publication).. that in itself is pretty amazing."Amazing? YES! Cool? Absolutely! Although there is not necessarily as close of a temporal connection as hours or even days. 3) "I have also seen "rarity" placed on coins because they are NOT a die match? This confuses me a bit - if this is the case the total # of examples for this coin design (from any dies) must be extremely low... so all are rare?"It seems to me a coin being declared as 'rare' due to the fact that no die-match could be found would only be appropriate if the type itself was 'rare' on its own merit. IOW: The total number of extant examples should be THE sole determinant of a coin's rarity/scarcity/commonness. (Unless I'm missing something, which, alas, is always an extant possibility and not rare at all.) I sold some of my die-matched pairs. In part that was because the novelty wore off, but also because I realized I'd rather own two separate ancient coins than two of the same type. I still have two matches though. Both are common types. Here is an obverse die-match only, (Herod Agrippa I, Hendin 1244).[ATTACH=full]958747[/ATTACH]And this is a double-die match, (Augustus denarius, RIC I 107). [ATTACH=full]958751[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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