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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2494450, member: 19463&quot;]We have no records.&nbsp; I can&#039;t prove anything but I suspect 90% of ancient Greek and Roman dies were engraved by more than one cutter.&nbsp; I propose there were lettering specialists, those who cut reverse figures, those who roughed in portraits by removing large amounts of metal before a master finished the face of the emperor.&nbsp; On top of that, was there an apprentice who only cut borders of dots?&nbsp; We have some Greek dies that are signed showing different names on the two sides but the fact that Kimon signed a dekadrachm die does not mean that his helpers did not do some roughing in or an occasional dolphin.&nbsp; Our local art museum recently had a travelling exhibit on the sculptor Rodin.&nbsp; His &#039;Thinker&#039; came in several sizes and materials but the master touched rather little of the products after the design phase.&nbsp; He did not do bronze casting but the art world treats the products of his shop as his originals.&nbsp; How much he did hands on work on a plaster master like the one below probably depended on the day and mood. Art is a machine.&nbsp; I suspect Praxiteles did the same thing and imagine his friends over in the coin shop did, too.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]528423[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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