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<p>[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3927043, member: 84905"]Interesting imitations. I like the Carausius/Victorinus overstrike. The left facing Tetricus was probably the result of the unskilled engraver failing to realise that his engraving would be mirror-inverted. Both coins demonstrate nicely the predicament of mints working under the conditions of hyperinflation. Coins had to be produced in ever bigger quantities to keep up with rising prices (while at the same time causing the rise in prices); the mints ran out of official dies quickly and used make-shift dies produced by unskilled engravers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Tejas, post: 3927043, member: 84905"]Interesting imitations. I like the Carausius/Victorinus overstrike. The left facing Tetricus was probably the result of the unskilled engraver failing to realise that his engraving would be mirror-inverted. Both coins demonstrate nicely the predicament of mints working under the conditions of hyperinflation. Coins had to be produced in ever bigger quantities to keep up with rising prices (while at the same time causing the rise in prices); the mints ran out of official dies quickly and used make-shift dies produced by unskilled engravers.[/QUOTE]
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