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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4792175, member: 89514&quot;]Doug,</p><p><br /></p><p>Types were regularly engraved first, followed by legends, as one can tell from the numerous cases where the legend breaks to make space for an intruding detail of the type, or the lettering gets smaller, or is continued in the field, to fit it into the tight space left by the type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Errors as on Clavdius&#039; Nero As were only likely to occur with symmetrical types, which looked virtually the same upside down as right side up. That is the case with Nero&#039;s Temple of Janus type, and with two similar coins with upside down legends that come to mind: Diva Faustina II denarius with CONSECRATIO Altar type, and Nerva As with Clasped Hands type, CONCORDIA EXERCITVVM.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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