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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24703834, member: 26430&quot;]A scarce flip-over double strike. The reverse legend can be read on the obverse (back of Apollo&#039;s head):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578033[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Olympia, Elis AE Half Unit or Dichalkon</b> (18mm, 4.26g, 6h), c. late 3rd - 192 BCE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: Laureate head of Apollo to right. (Overstrike visible: Partial rev. legend, F, &amp; Zeus&#039; throwing arm.)</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: Zeus holding eagle &amp; hurling thunderbolt to right. F / HP (monogram) to left; A / ME (monogram) to right.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Ref</b>: BCD Olympia 295 (for type).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Ex BCD Collection, acquired Jan 1975 for “50 d(rs?)&quot; from “DGP,” ex “C.P.”; J. Cohen Collection (CNG EA 401 [2017], 731 [part]).</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>O. Hoover writes:&nbsp; “A rare variety of these errors is the <i>flip-over double (or more) strike</i>, where the flan flips over before it is struck again. In such a case, each side of the flan will have both obverse and reverse images present” (HGC 5: p. xvi.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an interesting rotated double-strike on a Julian II Fallen Horseman. It&#039;s apparently an otherwise very scarce (minor) variant. Dane Kurth has one too:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578030[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Julian II AE3 Reduced Follis</b> (16-19mm, 2.04g, 6h), Thessalonica, c. 350-355 CE.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obv</b>: DN CL IVLIANVS NOB CAES. Bare-headed, draped, cuirassed bust right</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Rev</b>: FEL TEMP REPARATIO / Є (left) / SMTS (exergue). Roman soldier spearing fallen horseman who is bare-headed, reaching backwards.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Refs</b>: DK FT1139 (different dies, on wildwinds <a href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/julian_II/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/julian_II/t.html" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a> or Helvetica&#039;s FEL TEMPs <a href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/ft-thessalonica.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.catbikes.ch/helvetica/ft-thessalonica.htm" rel="nofollow">[LINK]</a>). Apparently not in RIC w/ this control/mintmark. Cf. RIC VIII 190 var; see also RIC 92 (Heraclea).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Prov</b>: Martin Wettmark error collection.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not that well-versed in GLORIA EXERCITVS types, but I suspected this is another scarce Constantinian one:</p><p><b>Constantine II (or Posthumous Constantine I)</b> with &quot;<b>CONSTANTINVS VM AVG</b>&quot; (?) obverse legend -- maybe? (The double-strike makes it difficult to be sure what the legend is. Also from the Wettmark error coll.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1578031[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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