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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2276004, member: 19463&quot;]Oddball? I love this stuff but don&#039;t have many.&nbsp; Of course most oddballs are ugly enough that most collectors wouldn&#039;t touch them but I am definitely weird enough to make such things a specialty.</p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite technical oddity is the Magnentius with three reverses and one obverse. It is a flipover double strike but the first strike was a brockage. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454125[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin got my heart racing until I discovered it was not what it looked like for the first five seconds.&nbsp; It appears to be a unique Constantius Gallus with diadem on the portrait.&nbsp; In fact it is a pretty well aligned overstrike with the right side provided by Gallus dies and the left (including the head gear) by Constantius II.&nbsp; I paid $5 for this which is $5 more than the coin is worth to most people but how many doubles are this well aligned.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454126[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Tomis usually had a denomination letter in the reverse field including the unusual four and a half assaria with delta ligate with &lt;.&nbsp; This Gordian III die was modified to remove the field letter.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454129[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Stratonicea AE35 issue of Septimius and Domna usually has a small countermark of a head which sometimes is IDed as Caracalla.&nbsp; I wonder if the Caracalla vs. Geta controversy at some point caused the countermark to be removed.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454128[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Die breaks are common but this Syracuse Boehringer 703 shows what I consider something more interesting than just the reverse die break.&nbsp; I assume that the coin was struck while someone was feverishly engraving a replacement die for the one missing a large chunk behind Arathusa&#039;s head.&nbsp; This coin was struck with the die held at an angle resulting in a well struck lower right and barely struck upper left.&nbsp; I see this as an intentional move to keep from breaking the die further before the replacement was ready.&nbsp; There are quite a few coins of this die but I&#039;d like to see photos of examples later than this one.&nbsp; Did the die R481 survive with this amount of damage or is there evidence of yet another break? </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454131[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>US collectors like overdates.&nbsp; This Ptolemy II Tyre tetradrachm is year 34 over 33 or lambda delta over lambda gamma.&nbsp; Nobody cares for beat up silver so I got it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454159[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Antioch Constantius II is an over-officina.&nbsp; ANZ over ANH (or the other way around).&nbsp; If you think nobody cares for overdates, you should see the lack of interest in over-officinae.&nbsp; This is the only one I have seen.&nbsp; You?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]454138[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Fourrees are common.&nbsp; Brockages are common.&nbsp; I have seen about half a dozen fourree brockages.&nbsp; This Hadrian is also special to me in that the diamond shape </p><p>pit on the reverse neck is my best example showing a heavy eutectic layer suggesting it was made with added powdered eutectic as proposed in Campbell&#039;s great book on plated coins.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454140[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Republican denarii of one period were struck what is termed <i>al marco</i> or so many to a pound of silver.&nbsp; Rather than weighing each flan carefully, they made the proper number of flans so the total was a bit over a pound.&nbsp; Then a small scoop of metal was removed from flans before striking (at random?) until the batch was reduced to the correct total weight.&nbsp; That much was explained by Clive Stannard so some of us call these Stannard scoops.&nbsp;&nbsp; My coin is unusual in that the scoop was taken at a very low angle stuttering across the surface more times than most we see.&nbsp; It is not unusual to see one, two or three stutters.&nbsp; This one has ten. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]454146[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I want is an example scooped twice, once on each side.&nbsp; This probably would have been done accidentally when the same coin was picked up twice without noticing it was scooped on the other side.&nbsp; hen I bought the one below (one deep scoop) I thought it might be&nbsp; but now believe it received a banker&#039;s mark on the reverse that caved in the thin spot from the scooping.&nbsp; It is still odd but not what I had hoped.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]454158[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That is ten - all the attachments allowed.&nbsp; I used to collect Septimius Severus as a specialty but now my #1 interest is coins with something to teach about technical numismatics.&nbsp; Try explaining that one to the average dealer at a coin show.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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