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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3173447, member: 85693&quot;]I recently picked up a lot of four oddballs on eBay for $0.99 - the seller&#039;s photo was a bit dark, but what looked like an as from Hadrian seemed worth the gamble.&nbsp; The other three were modern(ish) and I didn&#039;t really care about them.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the lot showed up, I was pleased with the Hadrian, which has a thick green patina which mostly obliterates the obverse legend, but is otherwise pretty nice (for a quarter). </p><p><br /></p><p>The other three I didn&#039;t pay much attention to at first - a very worn Spanish copper of Ferdinand VII c. 1820 (no date) and a dateless Indian head penny.&nbsp; But the French Republic copper was weird - it appeared to be struck over another coin.&nbsp; Sure enough, it is a 1 Decime struck over a 2 Decime - after poking around online (and my paper copy of Krause) I found it - and ugly as it is, it is about as good as they get.&nbsp; The undertype bust is clearly visible protruding from the chin and throat of the overstrike.&nbsp; On the reverse, the undertype D (at 7 o&#039;clock) and one of the mint symbols can be seen, barely.&nbsp; Not exactly rare (12 million overstrikes recorded) but not many seemed to survive.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I thought they made an unusual pairing - any other oddball lots out there?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]816172[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]816171[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Hadrian&nbsp; Æ As</b></p><p><b>(121-122 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Rome Mint</b></p><p>IMP CAESAR TRAIAN HADRIANVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right / PM TR P COS III, S C, Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae.</p><p>RIC II 616c var. (cuirass); Cohen 1142 (same).</p><p>(11.34 grams / 26 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>France&nbsp; L’An 5 (1796-1797) </b></p><p><b>First Republic</b></p><p><b>Decime</b></p><p><b>Limoges Mint</b></p><p>Overstruck on 2 decime, n.d.&nbsp; (L’An 4-5 1795-1797) from the Paris Mint (?) KM 645.1</p><p>(20.53 grams / 30 mm)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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