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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;MarcusAntonius, post: 7473796, member: 119121&quot;]Reading all the posts here: coins were produced in series, that&#039;s why a coin is usually not unique. My two cents about the exceptions regarding ancient coins which can make them unique:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Mint errors like incusum/wrong die combinations</p><p>- Antique rare monograms</p><p>- Over minting with another die set resulting in amazing coins</p><p>- Stolen dies (not die sets) leading to improvised mints where the other missing die needed to be replaced by any thing</p><p>- Stolen die sets leading to the use of a alternative material by the thieves leading to a new version (Barbarian ambushes a Roman die artist, steals his dies which are normally used for Denarii and melt some stolen gold down to create a complete new coin!)</p><p>- Experimental coinage</p><p>- Small island coinage</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some coins which were melted &#039;en masse&#039; in ancient times, after Crassus lost his campaign, Legio standards and apparently his head as well did I read that many of his coins ended up in the melting pot (to erase the shame of the defeat against the parthians).</p><p><br /></p><p>The same massive melting happened with Labienus after his betrayal. For a very nice surviving piece of mister Labienus will you end up paying now over $150,000 as a result....</p><p><br /></p><p>Vibius Varus lost his head in the Teutemborg forest due to betrayal of Arminius and the great Hermann der Cherusker, not so long ago did many coins appear out of the soil of the former battlefield, the Romans were spread out all over Europe, North Africa, middle east and did bring there coins with them. They got ambushed and massacred by enemies on a impressive scale as well, this did lead to coins ending up in the soil in just to many places. It&#039;s evident that on a large scale melting down of coins in the motherland could impossible have been leading to just one single coin surviving of entire mint series but it just helped to reduce the numbers, making it rare![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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