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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3976804, member: 19463&quot;]The croc coins are <u>very</u> irregular when it comes to die axis rotation.&nbsp; This is most easily seen when we look at the coins cut in half to make change.&nbsp; I have a page on them.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/impossible.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can find the halves with the front of the croc behind either of the obverse heads or like the one below, rotated so you get the entire crocodile.&nbsp; I assume that coins exist where you get the top half of the reverse with only the tip of the crocodile tail but I have not seen that one.&nbsp; The cuts were almost always between the two figures with no attention paid to how it fell on the reverse but these do show the lack of regular die orientation.&nbsp; Some ancients are always oriented the same way while others paid no attention whatsoever to the matter.&nbsp; Some follow a rule and are either upright or inverted but not rotated 90 degrees and a few are either 90 degrees or 270 degrees but rarely anything else.&nbsp; Many of us record the die axis of our coins but we need to study many coins before assigning any importance to the matter.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1046739[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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