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Message:: [QUOTE="red_spork, post: 2515408, member: 74282"]It happens fairly often with Republican coins. It's much easier to notice with these with unique symbols on them, but even with other types where you only have style and subtle differences to look for I find that maybe 30-50% of the time I will find another with at least a single side match if not both sides matching by the time I get done doing my homework on a given type. With many of my scarcer bronzes the number increases pretty close to 100% because the total number of die pairs is very small. I highly suggest everyone here spend some time looking for die matches to some of your favorite coins. My favorite resources are ACSearch, CNG archives & printed catalogs, ANS, British Museum and Paris collections but what works best for you might be different based on what you collect. To me looking for and recording info about other examples and die matches is just one of the things I do with most any coin I buy these days, even super common types. To get back to the thread's main topic of imitation: I think Doug has a really great example of this with a Septimius Severus that he refers to as his "favorite die" or similar and he's got either coins or at least pictures of one obverse being used with multiple reverses. That's what got me thinking about and recording when I found matches in the first place.[/QUOTE]