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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7652593, member: 19463"]I someone were to do a serious study of these coins, I would expect them to address the possibility of inter-relationships between the mint cities. Was the cutter from one city apprenticed under one from another and adapted some of the style. Were some struck 'on contract' by one city for another? Did a single die engraver, perhaps, do dies for more than one city even if the coins were struck where they are labelled? I most certainly do not know. These are questions for people doing original research which, unfortunately, may never go past being turned in as an unpublished thesis. Assuming all coins were issued by exactly who/where/when appears on the legends is not a safe thing. We tend to assume they are what they say they are but we have to be sensitive to hints there may be something lurking below the obvious.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 7652593, member: 19463"]I someone were to do a serious study of these coins, I would expect them to address the possibility of inter-relationships between the mint cities. Was the cutter from one city apprenticed under one from another and adapted some of the style. Were some struck 'on contract' by one city for another? Did a single die engraver, perhaps, do dies for more than one city even if the coins were struck where they are labelled? I most certainly do not know. These are questions for people doing original research which, unfortunately, may never go past being turned in as an unpublished thesis. Assuming all coins were issued by exactly who/where/when appears on the legends is not a safe thing. We tend to assume they are what they say they are but we have to be sensitive to hints there may be something lurking below the obvious.[/QUOTE]
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