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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3037713, member: 19463"]I will be interested to see it and would like to know which it is. By the time of Gordian, coin production had reached a level that <i>many</i> dies were used for each type. I do not know how many. So many individually cut dies makes errors likely and the fact that the error occurred on a letter a Greek speaker might confuse makes this a good guess. There are many other examples of this on coins but I have not seen this one. I wonder if there is anyone who goes out of the way to collect such items or if, like with me, most just consider them oddities. Normal:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]757831[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3037713, member: 19463"]I will be interested to see it and would like to know which it is. By the time of Gordian, coin production had reached a level that [I]many[/I] dies were used for each type. I do not know how many. So many individually cut dies makes errors likely and the fact that the error occurred on a letter a Greek speaker might confuse makes this a good guess. There are many other examples of this on coins but I have not seen this one. I wonder if there is anyone who goes out of the way to collect such items or if, like with me, most just consider them oddities. Normal: [ATTACH=full]757831[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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