One Coin For The Price Of Two

I had a good show at Baltimore yesterday but will take a while to get all of them photographed. Prices were up especially on nice coins but I still found some mid-grade things I'd call reasonable. However I did overpay for one very special (to me) coin even though it was not the one I needed for my set. I posted a photo on another venue last night but it was met with apathy. Perhaps one of you would find it interesting. If you want ID practice, give it a try before reading below the photo.



The coin is a Constantius Gallus falling horseman from Siscia overstruck on a Constantius II soldier with two captives type from Aquilea (both are FEL TEMP REPARATIO issues). There is a lot more legend readable from the undertype than from the second use but the portrait and reverse design is mostly from the Gallus overstrike. The undertype shows the full obverse legend (on the reverse now and well over half of the reverse legend including the mintmark. That is unusual. What I find fun is trying to identify each line on the coin according to which die produced it. I paid at least as much as a fair price for the two coins separately which is against my usual advice that ancient errors have to be very special not to be considered faulty. Double strikes are common but this was a second use of an earlier coin overstruck with different dies at a different mint so I wanted it. RIC number fans will find this as Gallus RIC 345 Siscia overstruck on Constantius II RIC 107 Aquilea.