Re-engraved die

Me too, ancientnut, my apologies for the detour.

 

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Thanks, all, for the comments. I will add my appreciation for your input and the fascinating gif, TIF (lol!). I see a slight downward shift of the image, but I’m not sure I see the spread mentioned by JA. AncientJoe, the Ptolemy WAS the coin I had in mind. I still think it’s possible the grain ear was filled in and my coin was struck later, but I agree with TIF and the others that it is more likely mine was struck first and the grain ear added later. And I still wonder why...

I don’t mind any thread being hijacked when it leads in interesting directions, as this one has led to hoard evidence. Interestingly, I find three coins in my collection from published hoards: Carosino hoard (1905), Randazzo hoard (1980), and an unnamed one (Coin Hoards Volume VIII, 298, 1979/80). However, the OP coin is not one of them.

 

A final note to this thread:

In my pursuit of every catalog in which a coin in my collection has appeared, I received today a copy of the "Catalogue of Part II of the Celebrated Collection of Coins formed by the late Richard Cyril Lockett, Esq.", Glendining’s, London, October 25, 1955.

My OP coin appears in this catalog as Lot 714 to which is appended the following note:

“A most interesting coin being an earlier striking from the same reverse die as Lloyd 1107, without the corn-grain, which was added to the die later, as on the Lloyd specimen.”