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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1268626, member: 19463&quot;]The next number I want to see is how many people were involved in the production of so many coins.&nbsp; If Victorinus had 15k obverse dies in 18 months that would be 200-300 a week to produce those million coins so lets say 50 a day or a die every 20 minutes (all very rough numbers just to get an order of magnitude).&nbsp; Counting reverse dies we get a die every ten minutes.&nbsp; Obviously there was more than one cutter.&nbsp; Perhaps 50?&nbsp; Traditional models suggests striking was done by a team of three but that would require a team for each die plus a group to melt and prepare blanks and a management team complete with security force.&nbsp; Certainly there may have been several mints in different locations so we did not need a superdome to hold all these workers but I&#039;m still having trouble envisioning all this leaving no trace in the historical record.&nbsp; How many inscriptions, tombstones or whatever survived to show all this ever happened?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know the numbers or even what I believe is possible but a million a day is a lot of coins to make without machines.&nbsp; Come to think of it, it is a lot of coins to make with machinery.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be interested to see all this spelled out when the book is published.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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