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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;nerosmyfavorite68, post: 25145722, member: 134416&quot;]Good point.&nbsp; With Byzantine AE&#039;s, mint state is a 10/10 rarity.&nbsp; They often didn&#039;t look pristine, even on day one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though I can overlook other problems, I usually steer away from the muddled ones.&nbsp; This, however, also has an unusually nice patina, another collecting criteria of mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>It also appears that I wasn&#039;t paying close attention when I purchased the coin.&nbsp; There&#039;s a slight difference in the flipped-over Christ.&nbsp; I now believe that it&#039;s not a flip-over double strike, but an overstrike.&nbsp; It&#039;s either overstruck on Sear 1855 or 1867. 1867 allegedly came after this, but looking at the reverse muddle, the left kind of looks like the bottom of Mary (1867).&nbsp; Either the strike didn&#039;t take effect (possible) or there&#039;s some doubt of the chronology.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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