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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 3202889, member: 36818&quot;]Interesting coin and astute observation. Although the officina mark was engraved first on some coins, it doesn&#039;t follow that it was always engraved first. For the subsequent examples you show, you say that &quot;the die engraver better anticipated the need for the reverse inscription.&quot; For these coins, why do you think that the reverse inscription wasn&#039;t engraved first? I don&#039;t see any visual evidence for that. For these coins the composition of the reverse doesn&#039;t look crowded, which points to the opposite: that the officina mark was engraved after the inscription.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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