Dear Masters, I bought this Sasanian Khusro II. coin recently.It is 4,16gr-31mm.I have no doubt about its authenticity.But what is wrong with its obverse and reverse whose images are distorted?Is it an error?If so, is it common or not?And how does it affect the value of the coin?Thanx in advance for ur help.
The distortion is caused by the very thin flan not providing enough metal to fill both dies. You see ghosts of each side on the other and each coin made from this die set will be a bit different according to how hard and evenly it was struck. If a coin was well struck on a blank even a little thicker, it will show much better detail and detail is very important to value. This coin has a nice strong strike of the date (year 13 - reverse left) but is weak on the city name (reverse right) and terrible on the portrait. I would value the coin at 1/4 of a better struck one.
That's a pretty sassy lookin' coin, numizmatikci ... I have a Peroz I that is quite similar ... (congrats on your new pick-up!!)
