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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3316850, member: 19463&quot;]I subscribe to the theory first introduced to me by Pat Lawrence many years ago that most coin reverses copied statues known to the die cutter but not all of them have survived.&nbsp; The vast majority of ancient marbles were smashed and recycled.&nbsp; Bronzes could have been melted and reused as coins or a thousand other products.&nbsp; Many of the statues we do have are cobbled together from parts with the exact position and identification being a bit subject to question.&nbsp; There were certainly many original statues that have not survived in original or copy form.&nbsp; Some may be shown on our coins but we don&#039;t know where that pose originated.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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