Hello,
This is my first post, I
hope I don't break any
forum rules.
Doing some research I found several
Anastasius follis with the same
obverse (same die) but different reverses. So far so
good, nothing unusual.
What bother me is that some of those coins come from different
officinae.
I attached one sample below (sorry for the picture
quality btw)
From what I've read, mints were subdivided into
officinae indicated by greek numerals. I didn't include the reverses in my sample but left from right,
officinae are: Б, Δ, ε.
The thing I don't understand is: how different workshops could strike coins with the exact same
obverse considering each die is unique
work of art. Do we know how this workshops were organised?
PS: I'm new to
ancient coins (oh, and my english sucks).
