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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2935889, member: 44316&quot;]As we can tell from the large surviving number of ancient coins from the mid-third century and the die studies of Roman coins that have been done, the volume of the Rome mint was huge. Sear III lists 24 antoninianus types for Aemilian, RIC has 29. I doubt if anyone has done a die study for Aemilian, but the fact that many extant coins were struck from dies with a great deal of wear does not demonstrate dies were &quot;few.&quot;&nbsp; I suspect that in three months the number of dies used was &quot;large&quot; (don&#039;t ask me for a number) even though they tried to stretch their lives by using them past when, in earlier times, they would have been replaced.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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