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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4776007, member: 26302&quot;]What is fantastic about ancient coins to me is how every die engraved by hand. Modern coins, with master hubs, machine strikes with collars, etc try to chase tiny little details like mintmark location, etc and say they are &quot;different&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my view, nearly every ancient coin is unique. There are almost no duplicated if you want to chase it down to the obverse/reverse die level. My avatar I own maybe 8-10 of, and do not consider any a duplicate, though some would consider more than one Sasanian a duplicate, others two of Vahran II as duplicates, while others two of the Vahran King and wife with Prince 4 to be duplicates. But it goes down further, to mints, then further to dies, etc. At a certain level, most ancients other than 1 are duplicates, all the way down to unless its a two sided die match its not a duplicate. This is where I live, if only to allow me to buy group lots of 100 hunnic coins of the same basic type if I feel like it. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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