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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1861364, member: 19463&quot;]Claudius is one of those guys that offers enough variations of style that it is hard to pick one to represent all.&nbsp;&nbsp; During his reign, the antoninianus sank to new lows in terms of metal and workmanship that led to Aurelian&#039;s reform so it might be good to include a scrappy Claudius for the sake of completeness.&nbsp;&nbsp; I realize that I did not have to go this far overboard but the rest of you posted typical nice coins so....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]312900[/ATTACH] </p><p>Claudius II / Pax / Pax / Claudius II</p><p>Since the dies for both strikes are the same, this is termed a flipover double strike as opposed to an overstrike (where the new coin was struck on a previous coin).&nbsp; I&#039;ll take this as evidence of how fast the mint was working to churn out millions of these coins for your collecting pleasure.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Someone here once noted how common clash die coins are for this ruler.&nbsp; It is true.&nbsp; Some are more obvious than others but a lot of Claudius coins show clash damage to the reverse. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]312901[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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