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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2678593, member: 19463&quot;]The OP coin is a great example of a question I asked here a week or two ago.&nbsp; When a coin was made by a mint that simply did not care when it comes to good workmanship, what faults do we prefer.&nbsp; This coin is off center the way I would prefer since it is obviously Septimius Severus from the portrait and reverse but it has a bold strike of the dating device IMP VIIII so it is fully attributable.&nbsp; Were it the opposite and had the full left side legend L SEPT SEV PERT but missing the right side we would be dateless and not attributed to catalogs since the type comes in IMP VIII, VIIII (as here) and X versions.&nbsp; Do you care?&nbsp; Would you rather just have a coin with the name that can not be identified fully?&nbsp; Either answer is OK.&nbsp; I prefer the coin as it is.&nbsp; Certainly we all would prefer a coin with full legends and there are some coins of this type that got lucky but it is not a period when you can expect it on every coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have one to show with opposite centering because I discriminate against them.&nbsp; I will show a different reverse type with date IMP VIII.&nbsp; What?&nbsp; You say you can&#039;t read the date on the obverse following IMP?&nbsp; You are right but the right side obverse legend is duplicated on the reverse running up the middle of the figure of Fortuna &quot;AVG IMP VIII&quot;.&nbsp; THe coin is a flip over double strike error and the second, far off center strike erased the obverse VIII but gives us one in trade on the reverse.&nbsp; Did I mention the mint at this period was not well known for caring about their work?&nbsp; This coin would have been a decent example but it just got unlucky in the rush to knock out too many coins in too much of a rush. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]598250[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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