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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 4377877, member: 104741&quot;]Interesting thread and enlightening links. Thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p>Some loose thoughts by someone who doesn&#039;t have an answer:</p><p>&#039;</p><p>-we only see coins from the dies that &#039;made it&#039;. Nobody knows how many failures were molten or reworked before a die was made that was considered &#039;good enough&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>- if you carved a die of, say, Alexander you didn&#039;t carve just one, you carved the same portrait hundreds of times in a single year. I suppose you get the hang of it after a while and can do it almost blindly, with or without optical aids...</p><p>Experience and practice.</p><p><br /></p><p>- some dies were made quite clumsily with almost grotesque looking features as a result. I find it hard to believe that optical aids were used there.</p><p>&nbsp;We&#039;ve all got one or two...I do <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine: Seleukos Kallinikos tetradrachm. Quite all right, until you look at Apollo&#039;s hands and feet...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1104232[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seleukos II Kallinikos. 246-225 BC. Tetradrachm 27 mm. 16.80 gr.</p><p>Seleukeia ad Tigrim.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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