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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2140979, member: 19463&quot;]One of my coins from yesterday&#039;s show was a different Arcadius.&nbsp; It has an unfortunate surface texture which someday I will learn not to buy because I like the one on your coin better.&nbsp; It does have a decent &#039;Hand of God&#039; obverse and I did not have that from Constantinople.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]409536[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My older Antioch coin of the type is doublestruck on the reverse, one being inverted.&nbsp; In addition to the T (meaning?)&nbsp; this one has a cross in the reverse field.&nbsp; I wish I could convince myself that the two strikes here are from different dies.&nbsp; Curtis Clay explains these (from coins having clearly different dies) as evidence that these were struck with two reverse teams alternating on one obverse die.&nbsp; Doublestrikes happened when the coin was not removed between strikes.&nbsp; This sharing would enable the upper, reverse dies to cool keeping them from softening and failing prematurely.&nbsp; Smaller reverse punch dies actually hit by the hammer would heat up more than the anvil die and a practice like this would seem to make sense in terms of getting the most service out of the dies.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure that I see the matter as certainly proven but I believe Curtis&#039; theory has exceptional merit (in other words, I choose to accept it as the best answer). </p><p>[ATTACH=full]409537[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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