syzygy Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Picked this up at the Baltimore show for $22. Licinius bronze. Obv: IMP LICINIUS PF AUG, Bust right Rev: IOVI CONSERVATORI AUGG NN, Jupiter TS (lambda) in exergue (is that Thesalonica and is that lambda? - can't remember and too lazy to look) Ordinairly, I would have passed on this because I already have a Licinius / Jupiter (and several Constantine I / Jupiters) in my small collection. Those are in better shape as well. But this one has been clearly double struck. If authentic, this is the oldest error I can remember seeing. Not so rare or valuable, but pretty interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Neat! Too bad about the blue stuff, though. The exergue to me looks like dot T S dot gamma dot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syzygy Posted November 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 Neat! Too bad about the blue stuff, though. The exergue to me looks like dot T S dot gamma dot Agreed about the blue and it is there to stay but hopefully not get worse. Given the choice of better condition but undoubled, I had to go with the doubled. TS should be Thessalonica with the rest denoting offinas I am thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlueke Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Cool, double strikes are kind of nifty. Thessalonica opened in 298AD so that seems quite likely to be the mint. To see some other ancient coin striking errors including a double strike see Doug Smiths Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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