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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1701421, member: 19463&quot;]Exactly!&nbsp; Like farming, by cutting artificial steps we make it possible to utilize land (understand coins) that otherwise would be just waste.&nbsp; Certainly it would be better if we had mint records and mint marks and certainly we will make an occasional error based on misunderstanding of the clues but it is better than just saying that we can&#039;t know with certainty whether there were two different guys named Gordian represented on coins or three.&nbsp; Without slope cutting we even fall prey to errors like believing that asses of Agrippa were struck while he lived and all Athenian owls were made in Athens.&nbsp; It is not just part of the game, in many cases, it is the game.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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