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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2081655, member: 19463&quot;]Some of us do collect errors but we seek more obvious things.&nbsp; Even then we don&#039;t pay extra unless a coin is very special AND high grade.</p><p>Obverse doublestrike but next to worthless due to poor condition</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387493[/ATTACH] </p><p>Brockage.&nbsp; In many cases these sell for about the same as normal coins unless extremely clear or of a period that did not usually make such errors. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]387497[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Flip over doublestrike where first strike was a brockage.&nbsp; Ugly to most but beautiful to me...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387494[/ATTACH] </p><p>Overstruck on earlier coin with both coins fully identifiable and in decent grade.&nbsp; This one cost extra.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387495[/ATTACH] </p><p>Double strike with severely clashed reverse die.&nbsp; Very educational but not expensive unless you count trying to find another...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387496[/ATTACH] </p><p>ANZ over ANH mintmark.&nbsp; &nbsp; It may be unique but nobody cares but me.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]387498[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Legend misspelled SANSTO for SANCTO.&nbsp; This is also the only one I&#039;ve seen but no one cares but me.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]387499[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>So many Byzantine coins are overstruck or double struck (or just messed up) that there is a premium for coins that are perfectly normal.&nbsp; If they are really bad and fully identifiable, they are salable for something near a normal price but you will not get rich on messy Byzantines. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]387502[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]387503[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Normal ancient collectors are considered weird by most people.&nbsp; That makes us error collectors unspeakably odd.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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