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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3503991, member: 19463"]I like errors including doublestrikes but like them more when they get really weird. For example a flipover doublestrike show obverse and reverse on both sides of the coin. This Septimius Severus denarius has obverse stronger on the left and reverse stronger on the right on both sides. It would be better if both sides were equal but we can't have everything.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]928944[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Constantine AE3 is double struck but what makes it special is that the reverse die was damaged by a die clash so the clash shows twice offset by the same amount as the rest of the image. This proves that ghosting was a part of the die and not a restruck brockage as some people have claimed. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]928948[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Most unusal is this Magnentius that was first a reverse brockage but then restruck flipped over with the same dies correcting the error and resulting in one obverse strike and three reverses including one incuse. It is my favorite doublestrike. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]928952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3503991, member: 19463"]I like errors including doublestrikes but like them more when they get really weird. For example a flipover doublestrike show obverse and reverse on both sides of the coin. This Septimius Severus denarius has obverse stronger on the left and reverse stronger on the right on both sides. It would be better if both sides were equal but we can't have everything. [ATTACH=full]928944[/ATTACH] This Constantine AE3 is double struck but what makes it special is that the reverse die was damaged by a die clash so the clash shows twice offset by the same amount as the rest of the image. This proves that ghosting was a part of the die and not a restruck brockage as some people have claimed. [ATTACH=full]928948[/ATTACH] Most unusal is this Magnentius that was first a reverse brockage but then restruck flipped over with the same dies correcting the error and resulting in one obverse strike and three reverses including one incuse. It is my favorite doublestrike. [ATTACH=full]928952[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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