But these are all the same die. It's not like the Italians making multiples of 100-lire dies and shipping them out. Even if these dies didn't pose as many
security problems as with dies for silver and gold, it makes no sense to keep a set-up and crew of skilled workmen at several places when it's easier to deliver
sacks of coins every so often.
Switzerland doesn't send (or didn't before electronic delivery!) stereotypes to print postage stamps all over the world; no, she
had her own presses and shipped the sheets of finished stamps, so that (as every kid who collected stamps half a century ago knew) the smallest economies
had the most perfect stamps. It is not true that several places never used the same
obverse dies; in the 190s AD in the Danubian region there are several dies that more than one city used. Except for small change, though, it probably wasn't something you boasted about; it would be like a town that hadn't a bank of its own.
Pat L.