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<p>[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 3254876, member: 90666"]Yes good point. It's not just that it's a brockage. It's that it's a brockage of an extremely rare type. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854940[/ATTACH] </p><p>From the obverse only pic, maybe it wasn't obvious. But this is rare as hens teeth. Collectors don't usually realise that it comes with symbols because it's so rare; Crawford lists arrow, corn-ear, ear, flower, knife, lituus, pedum, pentagram, scales, stilus, torch, wheel and a curly wing. This is evidently a stylus or stilus. There's a stylus in the British museum example too:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854942[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>But curiously it's a different die. 12 symbols, and symbols shared between dies doesn't sound so rare - 20 or 30 dies would be ordinary rare rather than super rare. However note on my denarius, multiple die breaks also reproduced on the reverse brockage side. Evidently the dies were very badly made and broke easily. That explains how 20 or more dies can equate to great rarity. I have another example with the so called curly wing:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]854944[/ATTACH] </p><p>This is about as good as they come tbh. Coming back to the rarity of brockages, if one does a search on AC for brockages, one finds dozens with portraits of Julius Caesar or Pompey. Because they are very common types. Collectors think because denarii with nice portraits of Caesar are expensive then they must be rare. They are common as muck with about 200 dies identified just for the Crawford 480 series in the 1974 Alfoeldi die study and probably many more since. A consequence of this Anguipede type being a rare brockage is that there is a high chance I find a provenance (before 2017) even without a picture: a matching type with a matching weight is probably my coin. Good question anyways. It's a coin I really appreciate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 3254876, member: 90666"]Yes good point. It's not just that it's a brockage. It's that it's a brockage of an extremely rare type. [ATTACH=full]854940[/ATTACH] From the obverse only pic, maybe it wasn't obvious. But this is rare as hens teeth. Collectors don't usually realise that it comes with symbols because it's so rare; Crawford lists arrow, corn-ear, ear, flower, knife, lituus, pedum, pentagram, scales, stilus, torch, wheel and a curly wing. This is evidently a stylus or stilus. There's a stylus in the British museum example too: [ATTACH=full]854942[/ATTACH] But curiously it's a different die. 12 symbols, and symbols shared between dies doesn't sound so rare - 20 or 30 dies would be ordinary rare rather than super rare. However note on my denarius, multiple die breaks also reproduced on the reverse brockage side. Evidently the dies were very badly made and broke easily. That explains how 20 or more dies can equate to great rarity. I have another example with the so called curly wing: [ATTACH=full]854944[/ATTACH] This is about as good as they come tbh. Coming back to the rarity of brockages, if one does a search on AC for brockages, one finds dozens with portraits of Julius Caesar or Pompey. Because they are very common types. Collectors think because denarii with nice portraits of Caesar are expensive then they must be rare. They are common as muck with about 200 dies identified just for the Crawford 480 series in the 1974 Alfoeldi die study and probably many more since. A consequence of this Anguipede type being a rare brockage is that there is a high chance I find a provenance (before 2017) even without a picture: a matching type with a matching weight is probably my coin. Good question anyways. It's a coin I really appreciate.[/QUOTE]
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