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<p>[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 25665709, member: 31620"]Nice,</p><p>I like errors too. The Diocletian - sceptre vs spear - is not isolated to a single die. Out of the 40 or so coins of the general type in my collection I have two other examples also with an inverted spear. The error seems to occur several times but is very much in the minority. I have not looked through all the plate coins in Bastien to determine the overall ratio but I suspect it occurs more often than we would otherwise suspect.</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI%20141z%20img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI%20141ay%20img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="maridvnvm, post: 25665709, member: 31620"]Nice, I like errors too. The Diocletian - sceptre vs spear - is not isolated to a single die. Out of the 40 or so coins of the general type in my collection I have two other examples also with an inverted spear. The error seems to occur several times but is very much in the minority. I have not looked through all the plate coins in Bastien to determine the overall ratio but I suspect it occurs more often than we would otherwise suspect. [IMG]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI%20141z%20img.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI%20141ay%20img.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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