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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 7170137, member: 82616&quot;]I love error coins, especially &#039;official&#039; ones. This Judaean bronze from Domitian&#039;s reign has a very interesting error, one that is difficult to explain.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1274698[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Domitian </b></p><p>Æ24, 12.92g</p><p>Caesarea Maritima mint, 92-93 AD</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM PM TR P XII; Head of Domitian, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: IMP XXIII (sic) COS XVI CENS P P P; Victory holding wreath and trophy, l.</p><p>RPC 2308 (10 spec.). Hendin 1459.</p><p>Ex Forvm Ancient Coins, March 2021.</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck for Domitian at the Roman colony of Caeserea Maritima in either 92 or 93, this Latin inscribed bronze provincial mistakenly on the reverse records Domitian receiving a twenty third imperial acclamation. Domitian was assassinated a few years later in 96 still having only received twenty two imperial acclamations, so it is very surprising that this error at the Caeserea mint occurred. Remarkably, it shows up on all the known dies for the type. Did news briefly, but falsely, reach the colony of a twenty third acclamation and the die engraver(s) followed suite? Or did one die engraver repeatedly make the same honest mistake over and over? It&#039;s a numismatic mystery likely never to be answered.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please show your error coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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