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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gao, post: 1147059, member: 19409&quot;]Well I think the issue is that you usually see a left half/right half divide, as if one side was struck, then the other, which is consistent with how you would have to strike these coins with curved dies.&nbsp; It&#039;s a bit hard to see in a photograph, but you can sometimes there&#039;s almost a &quot;fold&quot; that divides these halves, making the coins more bent in one direction than the others, which is again consistent with mainstream ideas of how these were struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>I should probably point out that I&#039;m referring mostly to bronzes, as I haven&#039;t looked into gold much.&nbsp; They&#039;re well out of my price range, so I haven&#039;t looked at auctions for them enough to get a feel for what sorts of errors they have.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It might be good to keep in mind that they didn&#039;t necessarily only use one method to make scyphate coins.&nbsp; A method to get the right shape in a gold coin may work poorly on bronzes, and inventing a new method to do bronzes does not automatically mean that you&#039;d change anything with the way you did gold.</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition, scyphates were made for a long enough time for changes of technique to take place at some point, and I would think that the Latin occupation of Constantinople was a big enough event that it could cause a shift in the ways that many things were done.&nbsp; I&#039;ve heard it suggested that Latin occupation coins may have largely been private issues from merchants and the like.&nbsp; If this is true, then I wouldn&#039;t expect them to have access to any of the government controlled minting equipment, so we shouldn&#039;t be surprised if the coins were pretty different from what immediately preceded them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;While I&#039;ve certainly seen plenty of double strikes, I don&#039;t usually see that left half/right half divide in non-scyphate coins.&nbsp; If you have some examples, feel free to share them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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