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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2306002, member: 76194&quot;]I will say this, all ancient coins were struck more than once. At least two hammer strikes was standard, and for deep relief coins, perhaps as much as three or 4 hammer strikes might have been necessary. However, as good as the Ancients might try to polish dies, the uniqueness of hand engraving dies, and individually hand polishing dies, then the uniqueness of each flan, and the individuality of each hand struck coin (which would mean no two coins were ever alike --even from the same die) kind of renders this whole discussion moot. I think of proofs as more a repeatedly reproducible feat of modern machine driven minting methods.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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