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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2278452, member: 19463&quot;]The important thing to specialists is not so much finding something for $5 that is worth $6 but finding something that adds to what we know about what we study.&nbsp; A coin with a previously unlisted officina just says that on one day someone struck things a bit differently.&nbsp; We don&#039;t necessarily know why but sometimes we see or imagine some significance in a change in shop assignments.&nbsp; For example a rare officina could be an accident or a sign that the type was being struck when the word was received that a person on the obverse died or fell from favor.&nbsp; Coin people LOVE it when the coins contribute something to the knowledge of history.&nbsp; Little clues may come up a hundred times for every time we understand one but that is one more than we had before.&nbsp; I believe coin evidence has changed the year we believe Pescennius Niger died and is suggesting (to some, anyway) that Philip II may have lived longer than his father or that word of his death did not reach the East as rapidly as did word of his father&#039;s death.&nbsp; I don&#039;t have the proof on such things and warn that there is no absolute proof in any science.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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