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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4575854, member: 19463&quot;]Since you insist on discussing modern coins in the ancient section perhaps you fail to realize that ancient dies were not rigidly aligned or made of hard steel as were those for your modern coins.&nbsp; In some cases it seems that reverse dies were made less hard to avoid damaging the more valuable portrait dies. That might explain why some ancient clashes are so much more obvious even to the point that a hunk of the die was broken out.&nbsp; You might be amazed that they continued using such damaged dies but they did in some cases. Of those in my collection, the denarius below is quite severe with a piece missing at upper right.&nbsp; Terms like convex and concave mean less when we have high relief and warped planes. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1132889[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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