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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8092557, member: 19463&quot;]A measure of how many coins were made is how often you see die duplicates.&nbsp; There are rare coins that only survive from one die set.&nbsp; There are common coins (like late Romans) where it is very unusual to see a die match.&nbsp; How many die duplicates of the Classical period owls can you find?&nbsp; The coins of Syracuse were published as a die study almost a century ago (Boehringer).&nbsp; The scholarly works on Athens show a few samples of broad groups in the Archaic and early Classical period.&nbsp; Why do we not have a die study of the Mass owls?&nbsp; I would really like to know how many dies were represented in the &#039;recent&#039; hoard.&nbsp; 30,000 seems like a lot of coins but I suspect the entire output of mass period owls made would be a number that would frighten us all.&nbsp; I have not read any of the literature that addressed the question of owl dies.&nbsp; Have you? If I were extremely wealthy, I might collect Syracuse by die (733 pairings of 364 obverses and 500 reverses?).&nbsp; I&#039;m sure he missed a few but 733 coins is not all that many coins for a rich person.&nbsp; Allowing for varying grades, a set might come in at $1 million and take most of a lifetime to find.&nbsp; I know more than one collector with that much in coins.&nbsp; Now try to get a set of owls by die.&nbsp; Lets make it easy and only try for the mass period owls tetradrachms from the last half of the 5th century (no archaic, no transitional, no pi, no new style).&nbsp; How many coins would you need.&nbsp; How long would it take?&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Syracuse:&nbsp; I have two tetradrachms.&nbsp; 731 to go?&nbsp; Can anyone catalog my first one? (c.480 BC?)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406586[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Boehringer 703 (v345/r481) (very late in the series - c.420&#039;s???)</p><p><a href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Boehringer_597.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Boehringer_597.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.magnagraecia.nl/coins/Area_IV_map/Syracusa_map/Boehringer_597.html</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1406587[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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