WWE Coins, 2016

Justinian 527-565 at Antioch as Theopolis.
Sear 216. A striking curiosity--look at the bent M! How could that happen?
Error coins are valuable in the US series, but not so much in ancients. But this curiosity would make a nice conversation piece and must be very rare. Have you seen anything like it?
[$39, reduced to $33, reduced to $23, reduced to $19]

Remarkable Justin I flip/doublestrike
31-29 mm.
See the second half his legend on the obverse left photo and the first half twice on the right from 5:00-8:00
Mintmark CON at 9:00 on left photo. and you can see the large "M" above it. This orientation emphasizes the profile bust.
Overstrikes are common in the anonymous Byzantine series and under Heraclius and later, but this one is perhaps the most extreme for anything of the period of Justin.
Amazingly complicated.  How did it even escape the mint? [$145, reduced to $119, reduced to $79, reduced to $59!]

We all know the Byzantines minted some lousy coins, but the blunder on this one stands out. To the left of the left image you can see "CON" from the reverse and beginning at 1:00 you can read NVSPPAV from the obverse. The orientation of the left image has the bust upright--some of the head and shoulders remains. The right image shows most of the rest of the obverse legend "DNIVSTI" twice, once near the rim at 6:00-7:00 and once exiting the flan at 11:00, while the usual large reverse "M" is visible on the bottom half of the right image (officina A) and when you look at it again, you can see the large "M" on the left image (above CON with the bottom at 8:30 and the top at 2:30. 

The Justin is a doublestrike, not an overstrike (because it is not struck on a different, earlier, type underneath). Overstrikes are common in the anonymous Byzantine series and under Heraclius and later. This coin must be about the most extreme mint blunder from the earlier period of Justin. 

[Seller's photos]


8-7 mm. 12:00. 0.445 grams.
Kaunos, Caria.























Athens. Hemiobol. 0.34 grams.


Athens. Obol. 0.67 grams.




Theodosius II, AE2




Corinth drachm



Republican, 101 BC





Republican




Maximian abdication
with BEATISSIMO SEN AVG



Aesillas
Macedon



Maximinus Thrax. Sestertius.



Philip. 244-249. Sestertius.



Macrinus



Vespasian, Titus, Domitian





Galerius



Maximian