Someone's Funny Coin Listing, Not Marcus Aurelius And Probably Photoshop?

Maridvnvm:

To quote you first: " But what if we were to find coins where they didn't remove the coin from the first strike to insert a new blank before a second strike is made? What would this look like? We would expect a coin with a strong obverse strike or even evidence of a slight double strike on this obverse if the coin had shifted slightly on the obverse die and then evidence of two dies on the reverse.... Do we see these...? Yes. The coin above is one such coin"

Back to this coin in question, using your analysis. 1. There is a first strike with a reverse die in place. 2. The coin stays firm in the obverse position, not shifting at all. And a new reverse die is placed to strike plus a new blank die is set. 3. There is a strike. 4. You end up with the original coin that had a reverse from the first die and it's own original strike reverse having been in contact with a blank. Not sure what the blank could do to that reverse image. 5. The new blank would end up with a mirror reversed obverse image if the top coin left behind functioned in the obverse position and the lower new obverse would be whatever that new reverse was to be.

So that is my confusion and I know I must be missing something in this analysis of your scenario.

Maridvnvm;

Sorry, I read that incorrectly. So we are back to where we started. When you say about the reverse we should see: "evidence of two dies on the reverse.".... either the first strike or the second strike would show the standing emperor who is clasping hands with Concordia in both dies used. I don't see that at all. Maybe a cracked half of the first die with Concordia only and then they replace the die with a full one and somehow the Emperor standing just does not show up? The angle of the strike? Because if there were two full dies involved, each with a clear Emperor standing reaching out his hand to Concordia, and two full strikes on this flan, this left no image. Either under the new Concordia from the second strike from her on top of him or over the Concordia from the second strike of the Emperor on top of the first Concordia. And that has been what has bothered me from the beginning.

I can see that people are not persuaded by my hypothesis of what has happened to this coin. I will leave you with another coin where something similar has occurred. This time a sestertius owned by Blake Davis.

The reverse mixes two very different types.... Victory advancing and ADVENTVI AVG FELICI-SSIM-O, Emperor on horseback right, raising right hand, holding reins, soldier to right





I will back off now.

Maridvnvm:

When you say "If you look at the reverse of my example above you can see that from about 11 o'clock to 5 o clock is the strike from one reverse die and from 5 o'clock to 11 o'clock the strike from the second reverse die." I could not agree more. And when I flip your last example I do see the SC below the emperor on horseback as well as the front hoof of the horse coming out of Victories shoulder. So I see evidence of both strikes and the full die of each. My issue of the coin in question, with the other side of these reverse dies having no evidence of being there, are just my personal issues with the coin. By the way, here is another coin of the same dealer. I think it is quite real. But tooled and patina reapplied? Just curious.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/255016115060