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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7934593, member: 19463&quot;]There are those in the scholarly community who call all coins that do not follow the rules they have set to be errors.&nbsp; I do not see Jupiter on a coin of Maximianus to be an error but simply evidence that the two rulers and two gods were all working for the betterment of everyone.&nbsp; I see this most in the Severans where Eastern mints do not do things exactly as Rome did them.&nbsp; On step further.&nbsp; I do not consider ALL overstrikes to be errors.&nbsp; It was mint policy to recycle some old coins and make them &#039;new&#039;.&nbsp; When this was done by melting, we do not see evidence without doing some heavy duty alloy studies.&nbsp; When this was done by striking over the old coins, it was quite intentional and not an error.&nbsp; However, it is an error when coins were struck a second time by accident whether that strike used the same or a different die.&nbsp; Almost all Byzantine cup shaped coins show evidence of double striking but that was how they were made to transfer as much detail as possible from the curved dies.&nbsp; All this means that it it not always possible to say a coin is an accident or on purpose without some thought.&nbsp; That is why I prefer not to say I collect &#039;errors&#039; but, rather, &#039;technically interesting&#039; coins.&nbsp; Each of these is unique but not the type of unique intended in this thread. A few samples of one of a kind coins:</p><p><br /></p><p>This Falling horseman of Constantius Gallus was overstruck on an earlier coin of Constantius originally valued at half of a Falling Horseman.&nbsp; That doubled its value.&nbsp; Accidental error, I doubt it. Unique?&nbsp; That depends on how you use the word. On that day did the mint &#039;upgrade&#039; just this coin or a barrel full?&nbsp; IDK. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372377[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Why was this Magnentius struck on a much earlier coin of Constantine II?&nbsp; Same question.&nbsp; Did it change the value of the coin?&nbsp; IDK. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372375[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Why did Postumus strike so many double sestertii on single sestertii like this Antoninus Pius?&nbsp; Clumsy error? Greed? Recycling?&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372389[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was an error we call brockage but then restruck making the coin as normal as it could be under the circumstances.&nbsp; I suspect the second strike was intentional to change an error into something more acceptable.&nbsp; Maybe?&nbsp; Every ancient coin is &#039;unique&#039;.&nbsp; Some are more &#039;unique&#039; than others.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1372376[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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