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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2025535, member: 19463&quot;]Here are a few more blunders that are just a bit different (and were in the coins that got repackaged tonight). </p><p><br /></p><p>What is wrong with this one?&nbsp; Nothing much.&nbsp; Usually these show the emperor holding a staff on the reverse but here he is just waving.&nbsp; That is a minor variation.&nbsp; What makes this coin odd is that the vast majority of this type misspell PRINCIPI PBINCIPI as shown on the second coin below.&nbsp; B for R substitutions are relatively common but it is unusual when there are many more coins with the &#039;error&#039; than ones with it correctly rendered.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]367674[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]367680[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The two coins below both show an L in place of the expected second I in INVICTO.&nbsp; What I find unusual is that they liked this error so much that they made it on more than one die.&nbsp; There are many misspelled dies on this type but usually you think of errors being a one time slip up.&nbsp; Not here!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]367676[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]367677[/ATTACH] </p><p>Did anyone notice that the above two coins use the same obverse die?&nbsp; If so, you might have a future in flyspecking die varieties for this mint that went out of its way to produce &#039;varieties&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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