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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3299042, member: 19463&quot;]I see no way of proving this.&nbsp; Today&#039;s die cutters have very little freedom with designs handed down from above and approved by authorities.&nbsp; We see a lot of variation in ancient details.&nbsp; In some cases we believe the reverse was copied fro a work of art familiar to the cutter.&nbsp; I can not accept the possibility that the city of Nicopolis did <u>not</u> own at least one statue of Apollo Sauroktonos but the variations in those reverses even from the same period make me wonder where the cutters got the idea for, for example, the dart version as opposed to the standard grab version.&nbsp;&nbsp; I envision the cutters being tasked to create beauty and, as long as they were good at doing that in the eyes of management, they had a lot of freedom to practice their art.&nbsp; The cutter may have been a slave (we don&#039;t know) but he was a valuable property or employee whichever was the case.&nbsp; Not all were as good as the one that cut the rabbit reverse but I suspect he was considered a valuable treasure to his city and treated accordingly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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