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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2361690, member: 44316&quot;]About the original CAESAR coin. If the bottom-left of the photo on the left is opposite the left of the coin on the right, here is a proposed explanation. I do not postulate two flans being involved.</p><p>Strike one flan. The first try was badly off-center creating the off-center &quot;CAESAR&quot; on the right image and the depression of the upper right on the left photo. The minters realized the coin was too off-center, so they put the partially-struck flan back on the obverse die to strike again, this time fairly well-centered, but upside down relative to the first strike. With an even blow they might have deleted evidence of the earlier mis-strike. However, the second blow was not even, it was struck with a titled die so that the force was mostly toward the bottom left of the left image and the left of the right image so it did not delete the previous CAESAR and did not strike up the elephant&#039;s head.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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