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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2252803, member: 44316&quot;]Here is a coin of the Byzantine emperor Justin, 518-527. It is a flip doublestrike, 31-29 mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]445910[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>We all know the Byzantines minted some lousy coins, but the blunder on this one stands out. To the left of the left image you can see &quot;CON&quot; from the reverse and beginning at 1:00 you can read NVSPPAV from the obverse. The orientation of the left image has the bust upright--some of the head and shoulders remains. The right image shows most of the rest of the obverse legend &quot;DNIVSTI&quot; twice, once near the rim at 6:00-7:00 and once exiting the flan at 11:00, while the usual large reverse &quot;M&quot; is visible on the bottom half of the right image (officina A) and when you look at it again, you can see the large &quot;M&quot; on the left image (above CON with the bottom at 8:30 and the top at 2:30).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Justin is a doublestrike, not an overstrike (because it is not struck on a different, earlier, type underneath). Overstrikes are common in the anonymous Byzantine series and under Heraclius and later. This coin must be about the most extreme mint blunder from the earlier period of Justin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Amazingly complicated.&nbsp; How did it even escape the mint?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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