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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Volodya, post: 2711760, member: 19615&quot;]No one &quot;needs&quot; to post anything at all, but typically, illustrations are considered indispensable tools in the world of ancient numismatics. On what basis do you dispute that? But OK, let&#039;s stipulate for the nonce that you&#039;re right, that reading &quot;more&quot; books will suffice to demonstrate the long-standing pervasiveness of tooling of precious metal ancient coins. Any books in particular you care to recommend to make the point? Or is the content irrelevant, and the sheer quantity of books consumed--on any subject, of any quality--all that matters in the end?</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Never</i> is doubtless too strong a word, but the fact is that until fairly recently genuinely <b>deceptive</b> tooling of gold and silver ancient coins, doctoring that might fool a reasonably experienced collector, dealer or academic, was very seldom encountered. Leafing through the a Naville or Cahn catalogue from the 1920s or 30s, it&#039;s simple enough to point out sestertii that quite obviously have been &quot;improved.&quot; Where are the equally obvious denarii or aurei?</p><p><br /></p><p>Phil Davis[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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