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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2551714, member: 19463&quot;]There is a category of double/overstrikes I find particularly fascinating but I am not sure my coin is one.&nbsp; I believe it is but...</p><p><br /></p><p>Curtis Clay published a theory on these that I consider most likely correct.&nbsp; The coins have a reverse struck by two different dies (often inverted from each other) but the obverse is normal.&nbsp; The theory is that two reverse die holders alternated at one station sharing the obverse die.&nbsp; Reverse dies tend to fail sooner than obverses because of the protection provided by the lower, anvil position.&nbsp; Being smaller and hit by the hammer would cause the top die to heat up more than the lower so allowing the reverses to cool a few seconds while keeping the obverse in constant use might make sense.&nbsp; Curtis&#039; examples show two different type reverses used but mine seems to be the same type unless the mark before ANTS is a dot on one and a star on the other (unclear to me).&nbsp; What we see here is a doublestrike with the reverse rotated 180 degrees between strikes or an overstrike where the second strike was from a different die held in the opposite position. This Arcadius AE2 is a bit of a mystery.&nbsp; How did it come to have the mintmark at both top and bottom?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]548360[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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