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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Omegaraptor, post: 8297017, member: 76105&quot;]I view it this way:</p><p><br /></p><p>Double struck = two strikes on a planchet from the same die</p><p><br /></p><p>Overstrike = two strikes on a planchet from two different dies, with the first strike being the “undertype”</p><p><br /></p><p>An example of an overstrike would be the 1795 Flowing Hair Dollar struck on a 1794, one of the Brazilian 960 Reis coins struck on a crown sized coin from elsewhere (typically a Spanish 8 Reales), or the numerous Spanish maravedii from the 1600s, some of which even have two different undertypes. There are more recent examples of overstrikes, however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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