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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1444600, member: 19463&quot;]I have a few other coins with the circular marks to some degree but all are Emesa mint denarii suggesting that the technique may have been localized rather than something the Romans in general may have done.&nbsp; Of course nearly 1/4 of my collection consists of Emesa mint denarii so I may just not have seen enough other coins to have run across the die circles.&nbsp; We do have a lot of evidence of a central point on dies of many periods that must have made it easier to lay out the circle of dots that made up the boarder of so many coins.&nbsp; Perhaps what Emesa added was the idea that a line below the dots would make it easier to position the legends in a regular manner.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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