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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8249533, member: 19463&quot;]You know I love my &#039;errors&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>My opinion:&nbsp; The vast majority of earlier brockages are obverse but starting around the time of the Gallic Empire, it is easier to find reverse brockages.&nbsp; The Titus bothers me.&nbsp; Are most Flavian brockages reverse?&nbsp; I don&#039;t have one.&nbsp; A brockage is caused when a coin sticks in the top die and was not cleared before the next coin was struck making that coin a brockage.&nbsp; It is more likely that a coin stuck in the top die would not be noticed so, since the top die was usually the reverse, the brockages would be obverse.&nbsp; Later it seems that the style dies was changed making it easier to produce reverse brockages.&nbsp; I tend to think this change was the use of pincher dies but I can&#039;t prove it.&nbsp; Also, more unusual are brockages of heavy coins since they are more likely to fall clear than lighter ones. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Republicans seem more common than Imperials.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453006[/ATTACH] </p><p>I only have one early Roman AE brockage and it is a barbarous Claudius. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453007[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Some rulers are easier to find as a brockage than others.&nbsp; Septimius Severus is not easy but I could not pass up this one from &#039;Emesa&#039;.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453008[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My examples of a reverse brockages are Gallic from a junk lot of five I bought from Frank Robinson in 1997.&nbsp; I still have three. I sold the others here on CT through one of our dealer members. </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this is probably Tetricus I but the obverse is such a mess I&#039;m hesitant even to call it a brockage.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453023[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My best reverse is this Tetricus II / Spes Avgg.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453021[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this one is Victorinus / Comes.&nbsp; Agree? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453022[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Of course all here should know by now that I will be showing one of my favorite coins, a restruck brockage of Magnentius showing one obverse and three reverses (2 normal and one incuse).&nbsp; I really wish any of you that have one of these would post it.&nbsp; For years I believed that all coins claiming to be restruck brockages were just mistaken ID&#039;s of clashed die coins but this one turned up and proved me wrong.&nbsp; There must be more but where are they?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453009[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Finally, I know I show it all the time, I want to see other coins like the one below.&nbsp; When a brockage is struck the coin that was stuck in the die must have been affected in a negative way.&nbsp; This Septimius Severus is flatter than many and the obverse is mushy while the reverse is especially clear.&nbsp; I believe this coin stuck in a die and produced a brockage of the type.&nbsp; Since this is not a particularly common obverse, I have always hoped that a matching brockage would show up but that kind of luck faces odds greater than winning the lottery.&nbsp; If my theory is correct, I would expect the brockage to have some detail on the edge by the face (brockage left) but, since the lettering behind the head is not flattened, I would expect the brockage to show no detail on that side (brockage right).&nbsp; Not only do I want a brockage of this obverse but I am asking for one with detail on the correct side to fit my theory and be the coin once struck with my coin.&nbsp; The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are even lower, 1 in 302.6 million.&nbsp; I&#039;ll place my odds of finding &#039;my&#039; coin to be 1 in the sum of those two, 1 in 594.8 million.&nbsp; Prove me wrong. I do have a birthday coming up and would appreciate a nice coin of this nature. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":angelic:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1453011[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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