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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4971689, member: 19463"]Of my half dozen or so specialties is one shared by rather few of you: technical coins. These are coins that illustrate some point about the manufacture of coins at that particular time and place. It includes but is not limited to errors. On my website and in various online venues over the last few decades I spent a lot of effort denying the existence of restruck brockages - that is brockage errors that were 'corrected' by a second strike. The vast majority of those coins sold as restruck brockages were actually what we term die clashes. Those interested in the arguments can read my 1997 webpage on the subject.</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/brock.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/brock.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/brock.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 2012, I was forced to amend the page to show a coin that proved that there was such a thing as a restruck brockage. I copy that amendment below. I consider this my most interesting coin. It is not my finest, my favorite or my most valuable coin but it is the one that made me change my mind. I might add that I still have not seen another coin I believe to be a restruck brockage but now I am open to the possibility that they exist.</p><p>2012 Update:</p><p><b><font size="6">I was Wrong!!!</font></b></p><p style="text-align: left"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/magbrock.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p> <p style="text-align: left"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/magbrockclose.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Again thanks to an Internet friend who traded me this coin, I now must admit that there is such a thing as a restruck brockage. This AE2 of Magnentius at first glance appears to be a flip over double strike. The obverse shows a clear portrait bust and a good portion of the reverse design so the coin received two strikes from the dies and flipped over between strikes. Flipover double strikes are not uncommon. What makes this coin special is that the first strike was a reverse brockage. After one strike the coin had two reverses - one normal and one incuse. It then flipped over (intentionally by a mint worker or accidentally???) and was struck again producing a normal obverse on what had been a normal reverse and a normal reverse on what was the incuse reverse. The enlarged image at the left shows some details of the VOT / V / MVLT / X side by side with the normal on the left and the reversed incuse on the right. The coin is a bit of a mess but the longer you look at it the more details from both strikes become apparent. I said that I did not believe in the existence of a restruck brockage but this coin does appear to be one. I was wrong!</p><p><br /></p><p>For those who are not familiar with the type shown it is an AE2 of Magnentius with the reverse (here struck three times (twice normally and once incuse) showing two Victories holding a shield. They are nice coins even when normal.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4971689, member: 19463"]Of my half dozen or so specialties is one shared by rather few of you: technical coins. These are coins that illustrate some point about the manufacture of coins at that particular time and place. It includes but is not limited to errors. On my website and in various online venues over the last few decades I spent a lot of effort denying the existence of restruck brockages - that is brockage errors that were 'corrected' by a second strike. The vast majority of those coins sold as restruck brockages were actually what we term die clashes. Those interested in the arguments can read my 1997 webpage on the subject. [URL]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/brock.html[/URL] In 2012, I was forced to amend the page to show a coin that proved that there was such a thing as a restruck brockage. I copy that amendment below. I consider this my most interesting coin. It is not my finest, my favorite or my most valuable coin but it is the one that made me change my mind. I might add that I still have not seen another coin I believe to be a restruck brockage but now I am open to the possibility that they exist. 2012 Update: [B][SIZE=6]I was Wrong!!![/SIZE][/B] [LEFT][IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/magbrock.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/magbrockclose.jpg[/IMG][/LEFT] Again thanks to an Internet friend who traded me this coin, I now must admit that there is such a thing as a restruck brockage. This AE2 of Magnentius at first glance appears to be a flip over double strike. The obverse shows a clear portrait bust and a good portion of the reverse design so the coin received two strikes from the dies and flipped over between strikes. Flipover double strikes are not uncommon. What makes this coin special is that the first strike was a reverse brockage. After one strike the coin had two reverses - one normal and one incuse. It then flipped over (intentionally by a mint worker or accidentally???) and was struck again producing a normal obverse on what had been a normal reverse and a normal reverse on what was the incuse reverse. The enlarged image at the left shows some details of the VOT / V / MVLT / X side by side with the normal on the left and the reversed incuse on the right. The coin is a bit of a mess but the longer you look at it the more details from both strikes become apparent. I said that I did not believe in the existence of a restruck brockage but this coin does appear to be one. I was wrong! For those who are not familiar with the type shown it is an AE2 of Magnentius with the reverse (here struck three times (twice normally and once incuse) showing two Victories holding a shield. They are nice coins even when normal.[/QUOTE]
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