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Message:: [QUOTE="Al Kowsky, post: 7956025, member: 97383"]S.A., I like your theory & believe it has weight. It would be great if you had access to photos from a hoard of coins like the recent Epfig Hoard, that contained many coins of AE3 size that were struck from the Trier Mint. Possibly another freak coin like yours might be in that hoard. The Trier Mint probably had the largest output of AE3 coins of all the Roman mints in that time period, & if your theory is right it must have been applied to all the coin types & all the officina from that mint. One advantage of looking at slabbed coins from the Trier Mint, you can get an accurate measure of die alignment from obverse to reverse. There certainly is a repetition of die alignment if you examine enough coins that speaks well for your theory. Pictured below are a few coins from my collection. [ATTACH=full]1379200[/ATTACH] Officina 1 [ATTACH=full]1379201[/ATTACH] Officina 1 [ATTACH=full]1379202[/ATTACH] Officina 2  [ATTACH=full]1379204[/ATTACH] Officina 2 [ATTACH=full]1379205[/ATTACH] Officina 2Unlike the other 4 coins I posted, this coin has a near 12:00 o'clock alignment (medallic alignment), possibly because it's a consular issue <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />?[/QUOTE]