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Message:: [QUOTE="Fugio1, post: 3984420, member: 89970"]Die studies and estimates of the size of a coinage through these dies studies is helpful in determining the rarity of surviving specimens (See Warren Esty's  [ [USER=44316]@Valentinian[/USER] ] foundational work on this topic: Estimation of the Size of a Coinage: a Survey and Comparison of Methods by WARREN W. ESTYThe Numismatic Chronicle - 1986). For die studies in my focus area (Early Roman Republican silver) I rely on correspondents who have devoted much of their lives assembling "corpuses" of these series, including Pierluigi Debernardi and Richard Schaefer. Both of whom have spent years researching sales offerings online, researching sale catalogs in libraries, and examining museum collections.  Unfortunately, although both are respected authorities and published authors, these vast lifetime die study works are largely unpublished so I depend on our private correspondence to request bits and pieces for my own reference.  Judging from the size of some of these studies (for example, more than 1000 coins in just one Crawford variety - RRC 53/2) it's not surprising that this sort of study (with all images and die links described) is not suitable for a typical journal article.  A book length publication is a potential, but these are living breathing studies with new examples emerging decades after the study was initiated. Are there other great ancient coin die study researchers (published or otherwise)?[/QUOTE]