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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3061654, member: 75937"]I think die studies can help assign an upper limit for mintage figures. For example, there are 18 obverse and 36 reverse dies known for the sestertii of Didius Julianus.* Now, how many coins could be produced from a die is a matter of conjecture and estimates vary widely. Robert Kokotailo of Calgary Coins <a href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/fakes/fakesgiveaways.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/fakes/fakesgiveaways.htm" rel="nofollow">states</a>, "How long ancient dies lasted is unknown and probably inconsistent, but it was probably somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 coins with some dies breaking far earlier and some lasting longer." He doesn't cite any studies to back up this claim,** but let's assume he read it somewhere and isn't pulling the number out of thin air.</p><p><br /></p><p>We apparently DO know that obverse dies last longer than reverse dies. Let's suppose that Kokotailo's estimates are reasonable and an obverse die lasted long enough to mint 20,000-30,000 coins and a reverse die lasted long enough to mint 10,000-15,000 coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>This would work out to a maximum output of sestertii of Didius Julianus of 360,000-540,000 on the basis of obverse dies (18 x 20,000 to 30,000) and 360,000-540,000 on the basis of reverse dies (36 x 10,000 to 15,000). So, mintage figures of half a million sestertii is a reasonable upper limit, and this would be divided among the CONCORD MILIT, Fortuna, and RECTOR ORBIS reverse types.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, how many of these survive? THAT's the 64,000 dupondii question, isn't it? It's this question that [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] addresses, above. It's not an easy one to answer. Even though an example will set you back at least a thousand bucks, and they are considered scarce, lots of them have been <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">sold at auction</a> and there are <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False" rel="nofollow">several to choose from at V-Coins</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Woodward, "The Coinage of Didius Julianus and His Family." Num Chron. 121:71, 1961. See this table:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]768093[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>**If anyone has any scholarly data about this, please share, because I would LOVE to know the science behind this.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3061654, member: 75937"]I think die studies can help assign an upper limit for mintage figures. For example, there are 18 obverse and 36 reverse dies known for the sestertii of Didius Julianus.* Now, how many coins could be produced from a die is a matter of conjecture and estimates vary widely. Robert Kokotailo of Calgary Coins [URL='http://www.calgarycoin.com/reference/fakes/fakesgiveaways.htm']states[/URL], "How long ancient dies lasted is unknown and probably inconsistent, but it was probably somewhere between 10,000 and 30,000 coins with some dies breaking far earlier and some lasting longer." He doesn't cite any studies to back up this claim,** but let's assume he read it somewhere and isn't pulling the number out of thin air. We apparently DO know that obverse dies last longer than reverse dies. Let's suppose that Kokotailo's estimates are reasonable and an obverse die lasted long enough to mint 20,000-30,000 coins and a reverse die lasted long enough to mint 10,000-15,000 coins. This would work out to a maximum output of sestertii of Didius Julianus of 360,000-540,000 on the basis of obverse dies (18 x 20,000 to 30,000) and 360,000-540,000 on the basis of reverse dies (36 x 10,000 to 15,000). So, mintage figures of half a million sestertii is a reasonable upper limit, and this would be divided among the CONCORD MILIT, Fortuna, and RECTOR ORBIS reverse types. Now, how many of these survive? THAT's the 64,000 dupondii question, isn't it? It's this question that [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] addresses, above. It's not an easy one to answer. Even though an example will set you back at least a thousand bucks, and they are considered scarce, lots of them have been [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0¤cy=usd&company=']sold at auction[/URL] and there are [URL='https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&searchQuery=Didius+Julianus+sestertius&searchQueryExclude=&searchCategory=0&searchCategoryLevel=2&searchCategoryAncient=True&searchCategoryUs=True&searchCategoryWorld=True&searchCategoryMedieval=False&searchBetween=0&searchBetweenAnd=0&searchDate=&searchUseThesaurus=True&searchDisplayCurrency=&searchDisplay=1&searchIdStore=0&searchQueryAnyWords=&searchExactPhrase=&searchTitleAndDescription=True&searchDateType=0&searchMaxRecords=100&SearchOnSale=False&Unassigned=False']several to choose from at V-Coins[/URL]. *Woodward, "The Coinage of Didius Julianus and His Family." Num Chron. 121:71, 1961. See this table: [ATTACH=full]768093[/ATTACH] **If anyone has any scholarly data about this, please share, because I would LOVE to know the science behind this.[/QUOTE]
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