Gallienus, an antoninianus with an interesting (over or double strike) resulting in cro magnon or perhaps a neanderthall! Post your weird strikes!
Die Cracks Gallienus (253 - 268 A.D.) AR Antoninianus O: IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate and cuirassed bust right. R: IOVI CONSERVA, Jupiter standing left, head turned right, holding scepter in right and thunderbolt in left. 5.1g 24mm RIC 143F (Rome) Sear 10237 Scoop PUBLIUS FURIUS CRASSIPES (84 B.C.) AR Denarius O: AED CVR, turretted head of Cybele right. Long oval gouge and tool mark across Cybele's head (al marco weight adjustments). R: Curule chair inscribed P FOVRIUS, CRASSIPES in exergue. Rome Mint 3.9g 20.5mm RCV 275 Publius Furius strikes here not as moneyer, but as a special issue in his role as Curule Aedile, hence the curule chair bearing his name.
I love the Gallienus whom I always thought was a little primitive for not trying to save his father. My strangest strike is a double almost but not quite aligned showing Constantius Gallus on the right and Constantius II on the left of the obverse resulting in the only Gallus shown with a diadem on the portrait. The right legend is clearly of the Caesar but the back of the head shows an Augustus. OK, this is a horrid looking piece of garbage for which I paid $5 which is about $5 more than either of the parent coins would be worth in this condition but I challenge all to show a better Gallus with diadem. I figured the weird value at about what I paid.
It is a little known fact that young Valentinian II liked to dress up as earlier emperors. Here he is pretending to be Nerva....or maybe it is just a die break???
A personal favorite, snot dripping from the nose. Maximinus II Daia (309 - 313 A.D.) Silvered follis O: GAL VAL MAXIMINVS NOB CAESAR; Laureate head right. R:GENIO POPVLI ROMANI; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked but for chlamys over left shoulder, right hand holding patera from which liquord flows; left a cornucopia., A in right field, •SM•SD• in exergue. Serdica mint 28mm 10.7g RIC VI 13b RCV 3754v (obverse inscription)
Nice! Those are the oddballs that I really like! That second strike looks deep enough to have nearly broken the flan! It is a wonder that it even circulated.
The closest I have to a 'odd-ball' (and not just crap) is this doubling which made me 'double check' to see if I still had my glasses on (once, one lens fell out and i almost poked my eye out to discover what was up LOL)----Victorinus:
While I have double strikes that I really like, I prefer doublestrikes. At the moment, I'm in Indiana and away from my catalog with catalog details but do have access to most of my photos. Below are coins with fully identifiable undertypes. Many times the two strikes erase important details of each other but I prefer overstrikes when it is possible to identify everything about both the undertype and the last coin. Syracuse over Syracuse Constantius Gallus over Constantius II Having said I prefer overstrikes, the Septimius below is a flipover doublestrike but what I like is the way both sides are similar in alignment but the obverse is stronger on one side and reverse on the other.
I'm always having trouble with recognizing understrikes. This Constans II follis, minted in Syracuse 650-652, clearly is an overstrike, but on what? Can any of you see that?
Look closely at your image. I think it is a double strike, not overstruck on something else. Look at the reverse and about 5 oclock in your photo. Looks like the top crown of the obverse to me. Maybe you can use some software to rotate the images and see if they match up
That's strange! Think you are right about the crown and bust. That thick bar could be an I, for 10 nummi. But it's so excentrical. What can have happened to this coin, technically?
