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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1865435, member: 19463&quot;]Theories:&nbsp; </p><p>1. The mint was producing both types at the same time, mixing up die pairings would be easy.&nbsp; There are examples of rare pairings where the officina that usually supported one ruler was used for another.&nbsp;&nbsp; I tend away from this because these are too common to be accidents and we don&#039;t have regal portraits with wolf reverses.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2.&nbsp; There could have been a shortage of obverse dies of some variety and a surplus of UR&#039;s.&nbsp; Some one could have decided that they needed to strike so many coins that day that any obverse die would do.&nbsp;&nbsp; After all, when they ask why you didn&#039;t strike 100,000 coins before lunch, they don&#039;t want to hear that you ran out of some die.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m sure there are other good ideas.&nbsp; Brainstorm it and see what seems reasonable to you.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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