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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4942470, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Correct, a die study of denarii would have been a gigantic task, and might well have shown few die links between types, since only a very small percentage of all the coins struck would have participated in such links, and those particular coins may not have survived, or may not have been included by the researcher. The production of gold and bronze was much smaller, producing a higher percentage of links between types, results which can be applied to the denarii too whenever they used the same types.</p><p><br /></p><p>No, I have no estimate of the numbers of denarius dies used per reign. What we need to know about denarius production are the relative volumes of each type, which are of course supplied by specimen counts in large hoards, without any need to identify the dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Severan gold and silver quinarii were sometimes struck from the same dies, but not Severan aurei and denarii as far as I know. Severan aureus dies are I think always larger and finer than Severan denarius dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ryro,</p><p><br /></p><p>My thesis includes photographs of every die for aurei, medallions, and bronze coins, and a die catalogue specifying how those dies were combined to produce coins, and the location of the known specimens showing each die combination. So all I had to do was identify your dies from my thesis plates, then check in the catalogue whether or not the same die combination was already known to me from other specimens. I have not checked the dies of most of the large amount of new material that has accrued since 1972, however, which doubtless includes many new dies and new die combinations, quite possibly already attesting the die combinations of your and Roman Collector&#039;s specimens, which were unknown to me in 1972.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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