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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Finn235, post: 3409221, member: 98035&quot;]Super cool error!</p><p><br /></p><p>Was the obverse fixed in Republican times? I have read that the free die was the obverse in Imperial times (the portrait was kept under lock and key) but I suppose it could have switched when Augustus took power?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have one of the same error, but on a Gadhaiya and struck 4,000 miles away and a thousand years later</p><p>[ATTACH=full]905286[/ATTACH] </p><p>It&#039;s easier to see the double strike on the reverse (free die) but it&#039;s present on the obverse too. </p><p><br /></p><p>My guess is that when mint workers are working quickly they might not notice the difference between a struck coin that just fell off of the die back onto the anvil and a fresh flan placed there by their assistant. Assuming of course that the ancients figured out a rudimentary assembly line procedure in which one person was responsible for removing flans from the furnace and placing them on the die, one person was responsible for striking the die, and one person was responsible for removing the coin to cool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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