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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2610058, member: 44316&quot;]I must admit I don&#039;t recall the details of the 30.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The 2 March and 6 April 2014 examples look obverse die identical to me. The others are very similar and the reverses remarkably similar--possibly die-identical with slightly different strikes, or slight retouching of a die with wear. </p><p><br /></p><p>If those are not all from one die, possibly retouched (as with the two dots I mentioned but have not illustrated) I wonder why a celator would engrave the next die to be nearly identical to the previous die--it is not like they had someone&#039;s portrait to reproduce. </p><p><br /></p><p>I see those five as effectively the same &quot;die&quot; possibly retouched a few times. The first three examples of David@PC are clearly not the same style. They are different. I don&#039;t doubt them. The five Naumann examples are the type and style with the off-centering I was writing about. I doubt them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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