Defaced Coins

Coins can also be struck from defaced dies...

Anyone know this one?

 

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Mary (1553 - 1554 A.D.)
AR Groat
O: mΛRIΛ : (pomegranate) D’. G’. ΛnG'. FRΛ’. Z : hIB’. RЄGI’, crowned bust left; double and single annulet stops.
R: VЄRITΛ S (pomegranate) TЄm PORIS FILIΛ, royal coat-of-arms over long cross fourchée.
Tower (London) mint; im: pomegranate
23mm
1.86g
North 1960; SCBC 2492

 

Some of these look like they might be chariot road kill.

 

I bought mine in 1961, sold it in 1970.

 

It looks like someone wanted a small saw.

 

As an example of a coin smoothed into a standard weight I offer this Ptolemaic example of Lorber CPE-B565 (Sv-1491, pl li, 10; SNG-Cop-246):



This is the coin (weight) mentioned in Lorber's write up as "A specimen almost completely smoothed in antiquity, leaving only traces of the face of Isis ..."

-Broucheion

 

I bought this for a pittance believing that it was a damnatio of Licinius. (We do know Constantine issued a DM for him.) The scratches are only on the obverse and are patinized, indicating that the defacement occurred in antiquity. But we can only speculate; we can never know for sure. But it seems someone didn't like Licinius.

 

Test cuts are one thing. but this feels personal =)



Description
Cilicia. Tarsos . Pharnabazos 380-373 BC.
Stater AR

21mm., 10,66g.