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<p>[QUOTE="Kaleun96, post: 8336562, member: 92635"]Nope, not at all. There are of course exceptions for specific types but, in general, no. I often find it odd if I can't find a die match but I don't collect particularly rare coins either.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one end of the spectrum you have coins that are so common and were minted over a long period that it can be a pain to find a die match due to the share number of examples (e.g. Athenian owl tets - though I have found die matches myself). At the other end, you have coins so rare only a few examples are known. Still, die matches aren't unheard of then as multiple examples of rare coins might be from the same hoard, thus more likely to be from the same dies. </p><p> </p><p>This Philip II type is more in the middle - it's a super common posthumous type with the dolphin and gamma but there's not so many examples that it will take a long time to find a die match either. You can also tell from the worn dies that they likely kept using the same dies for a long time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kaleun96, post: 8336562, member: 92635"]Nope, not at all. There are of course exceptions for specific types but, in general, no. I often find it odd if I can't find a die match but I don't collect particularly rare coins either. At one end of the spectrum you have coins that are so common and were minted over a long period that it can be a pain to find a die match due to the share number of examples (e.g. Athenian owl tets - though I have found die matches myself). At the other end, you have coins so rare only a few examples are known. Still, die matches aren't unheard of then as multiple examples of rare coins might be from the same hoard, thus more likely to be from the same dies. This Philip II type is more in the middle - it's a super common posthumous type with the dolphin and gamma but there's not so many examples that it will take a long time to find a die match either. You can also tell from the worn dies that they likely kept using the same dies for a long time.[/QUOTE]
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