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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3234157, member: 56859&quot;]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER], Justin&#039;s diobol is struck with the reverse on the rounded edge side and obverse on the sharp edge side.&nbsp; I recall you wondering if there was a convention to strike the obverse on the rounded side, as seems to be the case with Ptlolemaic coins and most such Roman Egyptian flans.&nbsp; I recall finding a smattering of Roman Egyptian obols which had the reverse struck on the rounded side but I don&#039;t recall seeing a diobol struck that way so I took a very hasty cruise through the first 200 &quot;Egypt diobol&quot; hits in ACsearch.&nbsp; I saw only four with this orientation:&nbsp; two diobols of Agrippina Jr, one of Otho, and one of Domitian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited:&nbsp; I scanned another fifty and saw several more examples of this orientation from various emperors.&nbsp; Maybe it&#039;s not as uncommon as first thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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