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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7610052, member: 44316&quot;]At a Roman mint when die-engravers are working day in and day out cutting dies and having developed their skills, possibly over years, we may be able to distinguish different styles. There is one Republican issue commonly divided into two styles attributed to two engravers. But when the issue is small it is likely there was one engraver getting better and better, or changing his ideas about how it should look, or just not being consistent. It is known that it doesn&#039;t take long to engrave a die (hours, not days) and one engraver can easily keep a small mint supplied. At, say, 20,000 coins per die (a common estimate) and 5,000 coins struck by one team per day, you can see there is no need for more than one engraver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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