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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Herodotus, post: 5242473, member: 111387&quot;]Pretty cool to find die-matches among coins owned by different members.&nbsp; It&#039;s akin to a long-lost sibling being reunited again.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;d be curious to know how many coins(on avg.) might be minted from a single die before the die was retired -- due to wear/breakage et. al.?</p><p><br /></p><p>Were they minted in the 100s? 1000s?</p><p><br /></p><p>With low production coins, it&#039;s well understood that there may be only a few different dies among a certain type.&nbsp; So it is obviously more common for rarer types to find die-mates.</p><p><br /></p><p>Yet for mass-production coinage with many different individual dies, it makes me wonder pertaining to circulation:&nbsp; Were these coins separated at birth to find their way around the Republic alone on their own unique paths, or were they shipped somewhere together to remain and circulate in the same limited area?</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be so cool if coins could speak and show us the paths that they&#039;ve travelled through time -- Much like the way scientists put sensors on wildlife to track their movement patterns.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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