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<p>[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8337251, member: 86498"]In response to [USER=92635]@Kaleun96[/USER] What I mean is that one or both dies on a given coin is a die match. What I stated above is that die matches are unusual in most cases. However it is not impossible. What I was trying to point out is that; when I sees a large number of coins sharing the same die, that phenomenon is usually the result of a hoard which was deposited soon after the coins were being minted. I gave a couple of examples however there are many others. One example is this one. </p><p>Leontini Ar Tetradrachm 440-430 BC Obv Head of Apollo left laureate. Rv, Head of roaring lion left surrounded by three barley grains an an ivy leaf Boehringer 55 HGC 671 17.34 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1478217[/ATTACH]Though there may be other dies of this particular issue known the vast majority are from this obverse die which is easily identified by the dramatic die deterioration in the hair of Apollo. This group was probably from a hoard the majority which was owned by NFA. When the Athena Fund was liquidated in a series of auctions in late 1993 a large group of these coins entered the market. So many in fact that I remembered being able to piece together the sequence of the deterioration in the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8337251, member: 86498"]In response to [USER=92635]@Kaleun96[/USER] What I mean is that one or both dies on a given coin is a die match. What I stated above is that die matches are unusual in most cases. However it is not impossible. What I was trying to point out is that; when I sees a large number of coins sharing the same die, that phenomenon is usually the result of a hoard which was deposited soon after the coins were being minted. I gave a couple of examples however there are many others. One example is this one. Leontini Ar Tetradrachm 440-430 BC Obv Head of Apollo left laureate. Rv, Head of roaring lion left surrounded by three barley grains an an ivy leaf Boehringer 55 HGC 671 17.34 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1478217[/ATTACH]Though there may be other dies of this particular issue known the vast majority are from this obverse die which is easily identified by the dramatic die deterioration in the hair of Apollo. This group was probably from a hoard the majority which was owned by NFA. When the Athena Fund was liquidated in a series of auctions in late 1993 a large group of these coins entered the market. So many in fact that I remembered being able to piece together the sequence of the deterioration in the die.[/QUOTE]
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