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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2944446, member: 44316&quot;]That is so true. A good face on a Byzantine facing bust AE is unusual, which is why I recently got this Byzantine anonymous class D follis:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]717612[/ATTACH]</p><p>Sear 1836.</p><p>Many anonymous bronzes are overstruck on previous issues making the strike uneven. Many are doublestruck making straight lines crooked. The throne on this one has straight lines, which is by no means assured with other examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are examples I upgraded with the above coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]717617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>You can see on the left some of the jeweled cross of the earlier Class C undertype (the outlined dotted line from 8:00 to 2:00)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]717623[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also an overstrike on a coin of Class C, See the undertype cross on the right, tilted from 7:30 to 2:00 with 4:30 the old top of the coin. Viewed with 10:30 at the bottom you can see the undertype&#039;s big &quot;IC&quot; (for &quot;Jesus&quot; almost upside down at 3:00 in this orientation). The throne is weak, as is the image of Christ.</p><p><br /></p><p>The previous two examples are interesting for the overstrike and I like them for their big size and how little they cost, but their negative qualities are apparent and what make them cheap. I like the one at the top much more, but I paid ten times what I could get the others for.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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