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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4294695, member: 19463&quot;]My Side coin is from a different die so is of no value here but my Syracuse is about half way in the middle of the destruction of the reverse die.</p><p>Boehringer 703 (v345/R481)&nbsp; I have loved this coin since 1991 largely because of the reverse strike showing the workers were favoring the unbroken side of the die.&nbsp; In NGC standards, I&#039;d say this was 5/5 for strike on the lower right and 0/5 on the upper left.&nbsp; It did not work. I have seen later states of this die with much worse a break.&nbsp; One has to wonder how much time elapsed between the start of the break and the completion of the replacement die (R482?).&nbsp; I would love to have two more of these coins.&nbsp; One should be the earliest state before there was a break of any consequence and one from the last strike before the thing went to the trash.&nbsp; Seriously my current financial status makes it unlikely I will ever buy another Syracuse tetradrachm let alone a pair to show this progression.&nbsp; I have always wondered at the mint policy that created such great dies and allowed absolutely abysmal hammer work.&nbsp; This is from the later period of the great tet series.&nbsp; Finding coins even half-decently centered and struck coins (with both horses&#039; heads and the charioteer on flan) is hard. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1093284[/ATTACH] </p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=225559" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=225559" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=225559</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=68481" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=68481" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=68481</a></p><p>On this last one note the extension of the cud missing across the top and the fact that there was no effort made to favor that side by angling the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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