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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2207786, member: 19463&quot;]I agree with the difference here and like the way that you tried to get Steve into the subject by calling them animal coins.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I am not onboard with the intent of some overstrikes.&nbsp; In some cases the second strike was so weak that it is hard to believe they wanted to erase the undertype. Some mints would hammer an old coin flat before overstriking but these did not. In some cases the edges of the flan suggest that the weight was reduced to a new standard but my Heraclius over JUSTIN IS 13.77g which is way too high for his normal coins.&nbsp; Th one over Maurice is 10.58g.&nbsp; I do not have one to show but there are really obvious pie shaped flans that were cut quarters of earlier coins restruck to make four coins from one.&nbsp; My Phocas below seems to be what you get from clipping down a larger coin. I assume the trimmings were melted down and recast into new flans.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The question that remains unanswered to my satisfaction is how the mint got away with such poor workmanship.&nbsp; I&#039;d think someone who did not care at all could do this well by accident.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]430942[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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