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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4509690, member: 110350&quot;]Fascinating, [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER].&nbsp; In RPC III online, the entry for the Trajan camel drachm (<a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/4076</a>) gives the following information about die matches among the 95 specimens cited:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Specimens 95</p><p><br /></p><p>Die-links 1, 11, 49: same obv. die. 2, 28, 41, 74–5: same obv. die. 3, 36, 61: same obv. die. 4–5: same obv. die. 6, 8, 81: same obv. die. 9, 58: same obv. die. 12, 14, 80, 89: same obv. die. 15, 18, 68, 92: same obv. die. 23, 66, 76: same obv. die. 29, 62: same obv. die. 51–2: same obv. die. 70, 84: same obv. die as 4081/1, 4. 71, 79, 86: same obv. die. 73, 90: same obv. die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note [85 coins, 57 obv. dies, 1 shared with 4081]&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>No reverse die matches or double-die matches are mentioned; I don&#039;t know if that&#039;s because there weren&#039;t any or because the RPC III people didn&#039;t bother trying to match the reverses, for whatever reason.&nbsp; Leaving that aside, the fact that there are so many obverse die matches in a group of fewer than 100 specimens, and that the total number of different obverse dies is so much lower than the number of different specimens examined, certainly suggests that the number of different obverse dies used to strike this coin type wasn&#039;t very large.&nbsp; Which would fit the Woytek &amp; Butcher article&#039;s suggestion that this coin was designed in Rome, and that the dies may have been manufactured in Rome and shipped to Arabia for the coins to be struck.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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