Irregular flans

hello,
Please show me your coins with an irregular flan. I don't mean with an oval shape but those that are very particular.
I start with some. thank you.

 

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You want irregular flans, you gotta go Byzantine!


Tiberius II Constantine AD 574-582 and Anastasia.
Byzantine Æ half-follis, 5.02 g, 20.4 mm, 7 h.
Thessalonica, AD 579.
Obv: dmTibCONS TANTPPAV, Nimbate Tiberius and Anastasia seated facing on double throne; he holds globus cruciger, she a scepter.
Rev: Large K; above, cross; to left, A/N/N/O; to right, regnal indicator V (=5); beneath, TЄS.
Refs: Berk 398; DOC 23; SB 439; MIBE 65.

 

Does this count?

 

I’ll add the first Gallienus to this thread...I’m sure it won’t be the last.

 

IBERIAN
AE Semis
OBVERSE: Young male head right, Phoenician letter before
REVERSE: Bull right, crescent above, two Phoenicial letters below
Struck at Castulo Late 1st century BC
15.6mm, 1.8g
Burgos 897

CARAUSIUS
Antoninianus
OBVERSE: IMP C M CARAVSIVS AVG, radiate and draped bust right
REVERSE: / PAX AVG (AVGG?), Pax standing left, holding branch and transverse sceptre
Struck at Uncertain British or Continental mint 287-293 AD
2.4g, 17/19mm
RIC 899

 

Split


Samnium Aesernia AE21 263-240 BCE HN Italy 430 Vulcan - Biga

 

Absolutely!!!!
Do you know which is the cause of it? it doesn't seem a simple broken flan.

 

SPRUES


Carthage-Sardinia 300-264 BCE AE Shekel Tanit Horse Head Palm 18mm 4.8g sprues SNG Cop 173 - no pellet below Left

 

Not only is the flan weird but the figures are aliens (Byzantine coin of Justin II and his wife.)

 

CASTING GATE

Aes Grave Sextans


RR AE Aes Grave Sextans 270 BCE 37mm 55.28g Dioscuri R and L



Here is the casting gate where the runner was broken off:

Aes Grave Sextans Craw 18.5mm thickness on edge

 

Not sure about the cause.
The coin is in excellent condition, a lot of luster, it is definitely my best denarius in terms of conservation.

 

I got this fun, ragged flanned Carthaginian recently...

 

Julia Mamae sestertius with a giant crack:



Illyria drachm with a weird bent flan




Phocas with an over-sized flan:

 

Serrate Denarius, Rome, 83-82 BC, 19 mm, 4.07 gm, 5 h.

 

While I admire the Byzantines' work in this regard, I would not go so far as to say 'gotta go'. There was a short period in the middle of Septimius Severus' reign (IMP IIII-VII) when ragged was more common. Coins before and after these were more round.


My best ragged Byzantine has edges as sharp as a chain saw. This coin cut its way out of a paper envelope and was delivered with one point through the outer envelope. The photo does not look all that ragged but the sharpness of the edges is exceptional.
Heraclius


Some coins just got ragged when they were struck with more than usual force producing a thin flan with splits.
Constans II & Constantine IV


Both of my Byzantine examples were Sicilian mint products. Is this a pattern?

 

An antoninianus of Gallienus with a particularly irregular and ragged flan.

 

Where is the human book of ancients, Donna. I would like to see what she has to say. Good lesson so far, thank you.

 

Wavy Flan
Mine is a bit wavy...

Thrace Thasos
146-50 BCE
Roman provincial or Military mint
AR Tet
Dionysos
Herakles Club Lion skin

 

Here's my favorite, a denier of Raymond-Berenger V, Comte de Provence 1209-1245. A scarcer issue, with his coat of arms, of the kingdom of Aragon, as a son of Alfonso II.
Obv. The Aragonese royal coat of arms: Or [gold /yellow], two [also four] pallets gules [red].
(Here's a 14th-c. manuscript with the arms:

(Part of what makes European heraldry so cool, as early as this, is that its primary function is still utilitarian. ...Instead of the stuff you can get about coats of arms from, we could say, the 16th century on.
Along the lines of, 'I've got this helmet on, but I'll show you what you're looking at, anyway. ...Just because I'm that good.'
From my town, the blue colors of the Crips, and the red of the Bloods involuntarily come to mind.)
Legend: + [R:] BE. COMES.
Rev. Cross, ending in three pellets, extending to the border.
Legend: [E]P / VI / N / CI.
Duplessy 1615, citing Poey d'Avant 3935 (by plate); Boudeau 810; Crusafont 176; Roberts 4592.
Except, to paraphrase the old poem,
'And ain't that a funny old raggedy flan?
'Raggedy, raggedy, raggedy flan.'