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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Snible, post: 3945325, member: 82322&quot;]I don&#039;t know how many artists cut the dies, but Crawford estimated there are 195 dies in five different styles.</p><p><br /></p><p>Brockage:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039799[/ATTACH] </p><p>L. Plautius Plancus. 47 B.C. AR denarius (18 mm, 3.62 g). Brockage strike. Rome.</p><p>Obv: L · PLAV[TIV]S below, head of Medusa facing</p><p>Rev: Incuse of obverse.</p><p>VAuctions/Triskeles Auctions, Sale 17, September 2016, <a href="https://www.vauctions.com/APViewItem.asp?id=32706" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vauctions.com/APViewItem.asp?id=32706" rel="nofollow">lot 451</a> (WJP Brockage Collection) = Classical Numismatic Group, e-auction 59, February 2003, <a href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=30663" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=30663" rel="nofollow">lot 131</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>(For an example of a reverse brockage, see <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3109024" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=3109024" rel="nofollow">NAC Auction 92, May 2016, lot 1877</a> )</p><p><br /></p><p>For another example of the die, see <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=179887" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=179887" rel="nofollow">CGB.fr, MONNAIES 21, June 2004, lot 2221</a> (and <a href="http://www.cgb.fr/plautia-denier,v21_2221,a.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cgb.fr/plautia-denier,v21_2221,a.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>). The cataloger wrote (and Google translated) &quot;Beautiful expressive portrait.... Mr. Crawford noted an estimated 195 obverse dies ... five varieties. On this copy, the hair is natural.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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