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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2240338, member: 19463&quot;]Some issues were made from numbered dies and not all used the same way of &#039;numbering&#039;.&nbsp; Sometimes it was just a straight numeral like XXI; some were grouped in series mixing a letter and a number.&nbsp; Banti, <b>Corpvs Nvmmorvm Romanorvm </b>(9 volumes of photos shows the plain series up to CLX (160) and the A series up to A.CXXV (125) so there are at least 285 die sets used for the coins.&nbsp;&nbsp; The other coin here used what we call &#039;minor types&#039; or &#039;control marks&#039; rather than numbers.&nbsp; Michael&#039;s lizard is cuter than my carnix.</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=carnix&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=685&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CC0QsARqFQoTCMP3j-TUkcgCFcpXPgod35YBwQ" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=carnix&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=685&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CC0QsARqFQoTCMP3j-TUkcgCFcpXPgod35YBwQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=carnix&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=685&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0CC0QsARqFQoTCMP3j-TUkcgCFcpXPgod35YBwQ</a></p><p>Republican moneyers were allowed a lot of control on how they issued the coins for that year.&nbsp; Many coins did not number the die sets and some numbered dies individually showing that obverse dies lasted longer than reverse dies.&nbsp; Note the Piso below has obverse LXXVII (77) and reverse XCIV (94).&nbsp; L in that period was more like an arrow.&nbsp; BTW this is a more common type and should be cheaper since they exist in numbers exceeding that of collectors.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]441770[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Few people try to get all of the minor variations in these.&nbsp; Some big public collections like the British Museum have most.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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