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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3514418, member: 99456&quot;]A nice 180 side-swipe.&nbsp; I am trying to image how that happens - one guy hitting flan after flan while the second guy is a little slow pulling away the finished coin?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>An interesting coin [USER=74834]@Pellinore[/USER] thanks for sharing - I think the default answers to &quot;what happened&quot; are: there was a coin stuck in the upper die, or someone wasn&#039;t paying attention and put a blank flan on top of an already struck coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding how to figure out the obverse, you got me thinking about ways to theoretically narrow down the obverse:</p><ul> <li>unfortunately reading [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER]&#039;s note - narrowing down by mint and officina doesn&#039;t work in this case</li> <li>if you found by some luck a die match for your reverse, I&#039;m not sure it would be definitive - I don&#039;t know how probable it is that the same reverse would have been used with multiple emperors</li> </ul><p>Enjoying the ambiguity sounds like a good option to me - it&#039;s a great coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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