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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 8236943, member: 135271&quot;]Here is a coin I recently acquired. Of course, I&#039;ve been wanting a coin of Julius Caesar since I got into collecting, but they are quite expensive, especially the portrait coins. That&#039;s why I jumped at this one when I saw it come up on VCoins for an affordable (for me) price. It isn&#039;t the nicest, but it does still retain the basic details, and most importantly for me, Caesar&#039;s name is clearly featured.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/7mxggnr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The interesting thing about this coin is that the reverse is double struck. And I noticed upon closer examination that apparently, the reverse was struck, at first, with an obverse die. You can see the elephant&#039;s feet and the snake&#039;s head (barely) and the obscured letters spelling Caesar&#039;s name.</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/gDgESSi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder how this happened! It appears that they accidentally used the wrong die first, and then stamped the correct one over top. Didn&#039;t they strike coins using both dies at once? In which case I suppose, some poor member of Caesar&#039;s legion must have been having a bad day and mistakenly put obverse dies in both positions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone else have an idea about how this might have occured, and does anyone else have any similarly miss-struck coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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