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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3226940, member: 19463&quot;]There are too many things we don&#039;t understand but in this and many other similar questions I see two major points to consider.&nbsp; One is technology.&nbsp; Perhaps someone discovered a better way of hardening reverse dies so they lasted longer or showed age in other ways.&nbsp; Perhaps certain alloy components made a difference.&nbsp; Just because two coins are 80% silver does not mean the other 20% was the same.&nbsp; Did the mint include an intentional material for a purpose they understood and we don&#039;t.&nbsp;&nbsp; The other is standards.&nbsp; Did the mint under Commodus simply not care that coins from worn dies would sell for less in 2018?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The other question of this type that bothers me is why are there more die clashes in some periods than others.&nbsp; The obvious answer is that the mint bosses under Claudius II and Elagabalus did not consider it necessary to throw out a clashed die while another boss made it clear that damaged dies were not to be used. We can not expect to know but it is fun to guess.&nbsp; Obviously more errors will be made when the staff is forced to work faster to meet unreasonable production goals.&nbsp; That does not mean that the defective coins were let out of the mint just because they were made.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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