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This list is dedicated to the joys of ancient coin collecting. The period covered extends from the earliest coinage through medieval. Topics may include your collection, news and events, requests for advice and attribution, historical discussion as related to coins and more. Basically anything to do with ancient and medieval coins. Lively discussions are encouraged but extended flames and abusive language are not. Limited sales notices are allowed, please see our FAQ page for details.

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Re: Estimating Die Numbers
Valid points. The question of the variation in output per die has been discussed by many authors, and the spread factor is an attempt to account for it in the
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 8:10 pm
glebe_au
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Estimating Die Numbers
My note is based on Esty's articles, as it says. And you're right about Good's definition of coverage, but in the context of coin dies, we can assume
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 7:46 pm
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Re: Estimating Die Numbers
What you say is true for some issues of coins, but as you noted, not in the case of the Tiberius denarii I was looking at. There is no good reason not to
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 6:07 pm
Robert Kokotailo
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Re: Estimating Die Numbers
... Is that necessarily true? It may be in this case, but if, for example, a coin was struck at multiple mints, coins from the relevant celators could tend to
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 5:31 pm
E. Watts
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Re: Estimating Die Numbers
... It is not nearly as difficult as you think. My study was actually about trying to determine the number of celators involved in cutting all the dies by
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 5:02 pm
Robert Kokotailo
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