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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 4127592, member: 42773"]It's easier to find die matches among provincial coins. The mints in small Roman towns often served only a few thousand people, so there was no need for an overabundance of legal tender. (The Romans couldn't afford to mint billions of useless coins like the US Cent.) Some provincial issues had such short runs that only one die pair was used, or an obverse die and several different reverse dies, as in the case of your coin and the one on Wildwinds. If you like hunting for die matches, start with Provincials![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 4127592, member: 42773"]It's easier to find die matches among provincial coins. The mints in small Roman towns often served only a few thousand people, so there was no need for an overabundance of legal tender. (The Romans couldn't afford to mint billions of useless coins like the US Cent.) Some provincial issues had such short runs that only one die pair was used, or an obverse die and several different reverse dies, as in the case of your coin and the one on Wildwinds. If you like hunting for die matches, start with Provincials![/QUOTE]
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