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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;benhur767, post: 2914287, member: 36818&quot;]I once bought a coin that I knew was overpriced just because it was a die link to a coin I already owned (for a rare die, not a common one!&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an earlier thread questioning whether die links indicate a forgery:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/evalutaing-die-duplicates.284035/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/evalutaing-die-duplicates.284035/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/evalutaing-die-duplicates.284035/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>But I am talking about links for coins that the owner is certain are genuine (at least beyond reasonable doubt).</p><p><br /></p><p>Doug Smith has a very informative site where he show images of six die linked coins of Septimius Severus from the mint of Emesa. He write that, in order to find those six, he had to sift through tens of thousands of coins (mostly in the form of images in auction catalogues and dealer sites, presumably).</p><p><br /></p><p>The die links he found were for six coins with matching obverse dies. Each of the six carried a different reverse type.</p><p><br /></p><p>For my collection I have managed to find five obverse die links for coins of Elagabalus, all from different reverse dies but three with the same reverse type. The coins with the same reverse type are all from different reverse dies. One of the coins is a die duplicate of a coin in the British Museum. They are all obverse die links to a coin in Vienna. So the total number of linked coins for this particular obverse die is seven.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sorry I don&#039;t have my own images of all of these at the moment, so I will refrain from posting images for now. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, if you have images you would like to share and there seems to be some interest in this thread, then I will take some photos and post them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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