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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24758744, member: 128351&quot;]All these obverses are very close to each other, but it&#039;s not a obverse die match for all these coins. For ex. #160 has the obv. legend CONSTИИT etc. while others have CONSTNNT ... . #160 is a cast coin, or minted with cast dies, which may not be the case for others. It seems to be a mass production.</p><p>Casting bronze coins, or using cast dies, has been a technique used by official provincial mints in the 3rd c. to mint exceptionally large quantities of coins. I am sure it was done in Bostra, Arabia. Colonial coins of Bostra for Severus Alexander and Julia Mamaea are extremely common, much more than any previous or later issue of Bostra, and flooded local markets in the 220s-230s. Many of them look like cast coins and most seem to be die matching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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