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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3409832, member: 99456&quot;]An interesting collection of messed up strikes...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That is quite a mashup! looks to me like obverse and reverse on both sides?&nbsp; barbarous, tetricus, virtus aug?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>With or without the double strike an interesting coin.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is that an overstruck, and then double strike?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It does look odd...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wouldn&#039;t want to overstate it, but it was not an uninteresting time in Roman Republican history....nice collection of screw-ups <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> your M Furius also seems to have a 180 doubled obverse with single strike / almost normal reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Is there a slide of the flan on the obverse?&nbsp; I like what it did to Septimius&#039; portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe someone on CT knows more: <a href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coins-series-ancient-coins-made/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coins-series-ancient-coins-made/" rel="nofollow">here</a>&#039;s at least one article that claims:</p><p><i><font size="3">&quot;Normally the obverse die (“heads”) was fixed in a heavy anvil, such as a section of tree trunk, while the reverse die (“tails”) was embedded or welded to an iron shank that the mint worker held in his left hand to allow him to strike with the hammer in his right hand. It might take several blows to fully strike a coin, and if the die shifted between blows, we often see evidence of this “double-striking”.&quot;</font></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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