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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7803760, member: 19463&quot;]Every year for several years now some of us have posted an end of year list of our ten favorite new purchases. It does not look like I will be playing this year since my first candidate arrived just today and I sincerely doubt I will be buying ten coins this years.&nbsp; I am starting to think that my favorite collectable coins are those no one else would want.&nbsp; This coin is not beautiful but I found it interesting.&nbsp; Most of you will not. </p><p><br /></p><p>Postumus AE double sestertius with two different dies used on the reverse:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340240[/ATTACH] </p><p>The seller billed this as an example of a &#039;situation&#039; I first learned of from Curtis Clay which demonstrates his proposal for a mint practice where a striking team consisted of two men with reverse dies alternating on one obverse (anvil) die.&nbsp; These show one obverse but two reverses caused by the failure to remove the freshly struck coin from the anvil before the second strike was made with the other reverse die (often inverted).&nbsp; Sometimes these two dies were of the same type; sometimes they were different.&nbsp; Since the coin was not removed from the obverse die, it does not need to show double striking.&nbsp; This coin is very different.&nbsp; The obverse is double struck with the two rotated.&nbsp; To accept it as an example of the &#039;team of three&#039; error, I need to convince myself that these two obverses are the same die.&nbsp; That will require some photo alignments that I have not yet done.&nbsp; Otherwise it is just a standard overstrike which is very common on Postumus AE.&nbsp; Usually, however, these are overstruck on Antonine sestertii rather than other coins of Postumus.&nbsp; My image shows the same coin twice but rotated to favor each of the two strikes.&nbsp; I have placed what I consider to be matching strikes left and right but I am not fully convinced yet as to which was first.&nbsp; The coin just came today and has not been studied in depth.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Both reverses are Victory coins.&nbsp; Both used VICTORIA AVG legends. On the left is a single Victory advancing left.&nbsp; On the right are two Victories (only one shows here) with palm between.&nbsp; In both cases the other strike removed the captives expected on these types.&nbsp; Unfortunately only one profile of the portrait is clear.&nbsp; People who collect this sort of thing can&#039;t be too picky.&nbsp; Below are links form CNG sales of &#039;normal&#039; coins.</p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=275041" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=275041" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=275041</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=283822" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=283822" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=283822</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Please post opinions and examples of other multiple strikes on Postumus bronzes you may have.&nbsp; I&#039;ll start with my galley reverse on a Antoninus Pius undertype.&nbsp; Feel free to ID the reverse of the Pius undertype. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1340249[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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