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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2829182, member: 19463&quot;]Curtis Clay has promoted a theory that striking teams consisted of one obverse die shared by two reverse teams.&nbsp; This allowed the reverse dies to cool a bit between strikes and made more efficient use of the obverse dies that lasted longer.&nbsp; Some show the two reverse dies with different types but usually they match.&nbsp; The idea is that the second reverse die was placed over the old coin rather than waiting for a new blank. Often one strike is weak; usually they are inverted since one team was working from the opposite side of the other.&nbsp; Searching Forvm for Curtis&#039; posts on the matter might make the theory more clear.&nbsp; I say his arguments make a great deal of sense and I tend to accept this one.&nbsp; The obverse never left the die between strikes so there is no doubling on that side. </p><p><br /></p><p>My Arcadius example is perfectly 180 degrees inverted.&nbsp; ANTS appears upside down at the top. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]666395[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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