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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3592548, member: 80783&quot;]According to Cahn, 8 obverse and 26 reverse dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another reason for a high survival rate might be that certain coin-like objects were not intended for circulation but used as status symbols and buried with their owners, like holed barbarian imitations of Roman Aurei.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably around a dozen specimens of my gold plated Aureus featuring a left-facing Tetrarch (probably Diocletian) and Roma seated have been found in modern-day Ukraine, probably all in graves of the gothic Chernyakov culture. They are all from the same pair of dies! There is an other type with 30 or so specimens from one pair of dies. I doubt there is an Imperial gold coin with that many matches.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]960113[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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