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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7807461, member: 19463&quot;]The vast majority of the cup shaped AE and AR coins of this era were struck twice tilting the top die a but to insure the whole design transferred. Rarely was this done accurately enough that you don&#039;t see some shift.&nbsp; Coins with a lot of shift like the one from seth77 tend to destroy the other side making me avoid them.&nbsp; Gold is softer and faired better on average.&nbsp; This series is great if you like coins with one nice side and one not so......</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexius III with right figure seeming to be 3/4 facing left and &#039;shadow&#039; of the other, more direct, strike.&nbsp; Note the single/doubled globus cruciger between the figures is offset that same amount. [ATTACH=full]1340946[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>To strike properly with one blow, the two dies needed to have identical but opposite curves.&nbsp; The mint had trouble with that so the double striking made things a little better???[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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