Nice Ancient Error?

Here is with the other coins

For a double strike, I can't think of a more interesting place for it to be visible--nice coin!

Very nice error!

Although interesting these are not very rare t0rress, certainly not as rare as modern-day errors. The value may be slightly increased but most people want well centred, well struck coins. Generally the mis-stuck coins sell for less in ancient collecting.

I have a couple but they are not as attractive as yours.

Most ancients would be considered errors by the standards applied to modern coins so an error has to be extreme to add value. These are often cheaper than regular coins simply because so few people like ugly. I'll offer two that I consider more unusual than most.





This Claudius II / Pax is a double strike but the coin flipped over between the strikes so you get a mixture of obverse and reverse on each side.



Brockages are caused by a coin sticking in the die and being used for the next coin as a backwards die. I always liked how you get details in the low spots like the head band here that have worn away on the obverse where they are the high points rather than the low.



A very common error that adds no value is the clashed die. That results when a die is struck without a coin blank in place so the harder obverse die leaves an impression on the reverse die and every coin struck with it. What makes this Constantine I / Sol special is that it is also double struck so the shadow of the face (under Sol's arm) is doubled with an offset matching the two strikes. There are people who do not believe in clashed dies preferring to call the error 'restruck brockage' claiming that the reverse was struck a second time after removing the coin that stuck in the die that made the brockage. This is just wrong and is proven by coins like this that show the incuse was caused by the die damage (here doubled. To prove a restruck brockage you would need to find two of them from the same die set with the incuse parts in different places. No one has ever shown that set (because it doesn't exist, IMHO). This coin also demonstrates how large the reverse die punch was. See how the coin curled up around the edge of the punch. You only see this when, as here, a strike is off center by more than the extra space outside the design.

Very interesting, Doug what about this Carus antoninianus, is it a clashed die?

Regards,
Ed

Thank's Doug for your explanation.

Ed

I am enjoying these pics.

But ilikeikes has said it better than me!

I've been collecting ancients for nearly 40 years, and I am yet to acquire a decent ancient error.