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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2596503, member: 19463&quot;]My last coin of 2016 arrived today and is probably the cheapest coin ever offered at an auction that charges a 15% buyer&#039;s fee and $6.25 shipping totaling a 50% add on to hammer.&nbsp; Of course most bidders would not bid on such a thing but I bid a lot lower than I would have paid a deale at a show so it all worked out.&nbsp; I collect technical errors and have only seen a few of these before so decided to bid.&nbsp; Of course, as luck would have it, I was outbid on all the other lots of interest in the sale so ideas of diluting the postage were dashed. </p><p><br /></p><p>Many are aware of brockages where a coin sticks in the reverse die and produces an incuse of the obverse on the next coin struck.&nbsp; This is not a brockage.&nbsp; When this coin was made, two blanks had stuck together and were hammered at one time.&nbsp; This coin received the obverse; the other (wouldn&#039;t I love to have it!) received the reverse.&nbsp; At some point after striking the two separated.&nbsp; The reverse here is not quite blank.&nbsp; There is a very faint depression behind the head and a raised rim showing that the two flans were not perfectly aligned when struck.&nbsp; The mate to this coin would have a similar raised rim on one side of the design.&nbsp; I have no idea what the reverse was and the chance of finding the mate is something beyond winning the $500,000,000 lottery prize. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]565918[/ATTACH] </p><p>The coin has good detail and less than beautiful sand patina showing that the two were separated before the coin was buried.&nbsp; Can we assume that both halves circulated freely and normal antoniniani? </p><p><br /></p><p>There is one similar appearing technical oddity.&nbsp; There are coins which have been planed to remove the reverse leaving a flat blank surface easy to glue to some surface.&nbsp; Such a coin will not have the dent behind the head or the raised rim caused by the double stacked flan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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