Posted 01/29/2008 9:29 pm
This is a striking error.
The coin has been struck and the die twisted slightly and struck again.
The first strike goes from INIE through CIVA and on as far as TA - or from 3 O'Clock to about 10:30.
The punch is then rotated (anticlockwise) slightly and the coin struck again to patch up the flat part from the off-alignment first strike. This second strike runs from the S through to DVB. The bar between the S and D is the rotated position of the top of the arm of the cross.
The legend should be |CIVI|TAS|DVBL|INIE
What you have is basically this with the S|DVB shifted back into the A.
The S is visible right at the end of the A and just before the arm of the cross.
The obverse shows the effect of the second strike with the upper left corner of the triangle being clearly out of alignment with the rest of the image. And it is clear from the edge breaks that this is directly opposite the reverse problem.
Double strikes like this are not uncommon in the Irish issues of Edward I - especially in the final issue where the mint was running at very low quality before it finally shut down having minted much of Irland's silver into coin for export and ruined the local economy.
Nice example.
The coin has been struck and the die twisted slightly and struck again.
The first strike goes from INIE through CIVA and on as far as TA - or from 3 O'Clock to about 10:30.
The punch is then rotated (anticlockwise) slightly and the coin struck again to patch up the flat part from the off-alignment first strike. This second strike runs from the S through to DVB. The bar between the S and D is the rotated position of the top of the arm of the cross.
The legend should be |CIVI|TAS|DVBL|INIE
What you have is basically this with the S|DVB shifted back into the A.
The S is visible right at the end of the A and just before the arm of the cross.
The obverse shows the effect of the second strike with the upper left corner of the triangle being clearly out of alignment with the rest of the image. And it is clear from the edge breaks that this is directly opposite the reverse problem.
Double strikes like this are not uncommon in the Irish issues of Edward I - especially in the final issue where the mint was running at very low quality before it finally shut down having minted much of Irland's silver into coin for export and ruined the local economy.
Nice example.
Edited by johnsl
01/29/2008 9:30 pm
01/29/2008 9:30 pm
