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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3336168, member: 19463&quot;]My opinion:&nbsp; This amount of doubling is a fault and would reduce the value.&nbsp; To be an error worthy of adding value, an ancient needs to be really &#039;different&#039;.&nbsp; I have several doublestrikes and the ones below strike me as premium items worth perhaps 120% of &#039;normal&#039;.&nbsp; Overstrikes involving coins being struck on earlier coins are a bit better but still need to be really messed up to be of great interest.</p><p><br /></p><p>Septimius Severus flipover doublestrike with Mars Pater shows PATER at the right of both sides and the obverse legend at the left.&nbsp; This item would be a bit better if the combination portrait and Mars on each side were just a bit more equal but this is a pretty classic error coin as it is.&nbsp; What is it worth?&nbsp; IDK.&nbsp; When I&#039;m dead my heirs won&#039;t be impressed by what it brings and it won&#039;t be sold before that. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]883640[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This Constantine I has a clear doublestrike without the flipover feature.&nbsp; IMO, it is of great value since the reverse die shows a strong die clash which is also doubled proving the incuse areas are a die clash rather than a brockage that was restruck to correct.&nbsp; Cash value?&nbsp; Again, I&#039;ll never know but the number of people interested in such things suggests it will not be much.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]883642[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To repeat:&nbsp; Many/most ancient coins have faults that would be called errors if found on a modern coins.&nbsp; Very few are so severe that they would cause a reasonably normal collector to pay as much (let alone a premium) as they would for a well struck, normal coin.&nbsp; Strange people like me like them for their educational features.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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