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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2435358, member: 19463&quot;]Forgot to answer your question: Each die was an individually hand cut work.&nbsp; Your coin and the other one you showed in the photo have the same legends and type but a bit different style.&nbsp; They would be considered the same unless you got to a place of specialization where you wanted to study the smallest variations.&nbsp; You could get closer by finding two coins struck from the same dies but they would differ in centering, flan size and faults.&nbsp; I have a few coins that are nearly identical in my prime specialties but that is partly to show the point.&nbsp; The image below shows nine pair of coins of Septimius Severus and his wife Julia Domna.&nbsp; Each coin is struck from the same die as its partner.&nbsp; Most people might say they only want one of a ruler, or one from each mint (there are four different in the photo) but when you get really into a specialty you can look forward to starting on your second hundred, fifth hundred, several thousand?????&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/die0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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