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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3442478, member: 19463&quot;]My first overstrike was the Julia Domna from the early 1960&#039;s but my records from those days don&#039;t include exact details.&nbsp; I have shown it here many timessince it was one of the three coins I did not sell in 1974 when I took a break in collection to fund becoming a father.&nbsp; I am not sure of the undertype but have been calling it Commodus for so many years I hope it is just that.&nbsp; There is an eye and nose looking up at an angle under her head.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914050[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More recent (purchased 2017) is a Septimius Severus Legion VII CL with jibberish between the VII and CL on the reverse and some letters continuing past the AVG on the obverse.&nbsp; Obviously I want it to be overstruck on a Pescennius Niger but convincing the world of that may be rough.&nbsp; Coins of LEG VII sometimes seem to have less refined workmanship And I can not convince myself that this coin was from an official mint (by style).&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]914058[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Much more certain is my Carausius Pax overstruck on a Victorinus Salus.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]914064[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I must have shown the Trajan Decius antoninianus struck on a Geta denarius a thousand times here but there might be a newer than new newby who has not seen it. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]914065[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The other coin often trotted out here is the Magnentius over Constantine II AE3 that came with a 1976 David Sear certificate.&nbsp; I like the coin but wonder if the certificate might have a higher collector value these days than the coin.&nbsp; I bought a &#039;normal&#039; example of the undertype which cost me several times what the overstrike did.&nbsp; I see this as a bit sad but it is hard to be both high grade and a complete mess at the same time. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]914080[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Yes, I have no Regalianus and not a Dyrantilla either.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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