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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6540079, member: 110504&quot;]Looks suspiciously like yours was overstruck on one from the previous issue, corresponding to Michael&nbsp; IV (Class C).&nbsp; I was just going from Wildwinds (<a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/anonymous/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/anonymous/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/anonymous/t.html</a>).&nbsp; But I wasn&#039;t convinced that the &#039;ghosty&#039; portrait of Christ on the bottom of your obverse was the same as the one on the top.&nbsp; Class C is the obvious candidate for another issue with Christ&#039;s face on that approximate scale in the design.&nbsp; The giveaway, though, is the little crescent and globe at the top of your reverse, corresponding to an arm on the reverse cross of Class C.</p><p>Overstriking of previous issues is endemic to the whole series, especially the anonymous folles.&nbsp; (The Crusaders did exactly the same thing in Antioch and&nbsp; Edessa.)&nbsp; Much more common than a mint error as elaborate as double-striking the same motif --although that sort of thing would be in character for the series, too.</p><p>I&#039;m wanting to think people here have done whole threads on Byzantine overstrikes.&nbsp; They&#039;re really integral to the series.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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