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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 91171, member: 283&quot;]Well, i&#039;m no particular expert on German coins per se, so I will stop at the edge of my knowledge and understanding. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll also check out my own collection to see if Ii actually have one of these or similar. Even having seen the same coin from the French site, the horse still looks overweight to me. I&#039;m used to seeing slimmer horses on coinage of that state. I&#039;ll try to find one and scan it to show you what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>An overstrike is usually a coin that has been struck over a `host&#039; coin, usually of the same dimensions and usually an earlier type. Recycling coins was certainly the norm in France at that time. I&#039;m not too sure about the many and varied German States but I would imagine there would have been some. It certainly isn&#039;t uncommon to find doubling to the legends due to the coin having been struck more than once. If you look at the reverse of the one on the french site you will see that at least one of the letters in the legend has `doubling&#039;. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s `falling off perch&#039; time here again. I&#039;ll take another look in the morning (Jockland time that is) and check to see if there is an earlier version from the same or neighbouring state that might have been used as `host&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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