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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2586196, member: 19463&quot;]Many of our questions require us to realize that the answer in one time and place will not be valid a few years one way or the other or a few miles away.&nbsp; Many early die studies benefited greatly from a system where every die was used to failure when it was replaced with a new one to be used with the still servicable opposing die.&nbsp; This makes figuring the sequence of dies relatively easy compared to a system that threw out dies in pairs or had half a dozen teams working sid by side but that made no effort to strike on Tuesday with the dies they used on Monday.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>New parents often mention a baby looking at a hand with a &#039;what is that thing&#039; expression.&nbsp; We are amazed at wht they have to learn in the first few weeks.&nbsp; Similarly, early adopters of coinage had to learn what was best for their needs.&nbsp; If we decide we need several denominations, do we make the large ones huge or the small ones tiny?&nbsp; Saaaay, What if we used more than one metal and make the small ones out of cheaper metal????&nbsp; It works the same way in the other direction like when the Romans decided the ten as bronze was a bad idea and opted for the denarius.&nbsp; Study of such questions is part of the fun we have that are rarely important to collectors of dates and mintmarks in modern coins but it still happens as our mint tries to decide how to make a dollar coin that is reasonable in size but not confused with a quarter.&nbsp; Numismatics![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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