Overstruck Coins
Brazil 1815 960 Reis - Overstruck on Spanish 8 Reale ...
Overstruck on apparently official Autonomous Issue, AE14, c.400-350, Bosporus Kingdom or Pontos-Amisos
(No legend)
Caps of the Dioscuri surmounted by stars
...TI / ...PA / ...OS
Legend in three lines ...
overstruck, coins struck on earlier Greek coins. I must admit they are not
things of beauty. In fact, most are quite ugly, but they are interesting,
providing information on many subjects, such as the relative dates of ...
"Overstruck dates are those where the die of one year has been altered to do service for the succeeding one.
1981 Dime Cap Overstruck on a 1981 Cent Cap
Impossible Errors
An "impossible mint error" is a phrase used by mint error dealers and collectors to describe a mint error that defies logic and boggles the mind as to its method of manufacture, ...
This coin was overstruck on a 1787 Connecticut copper. On the reverse under the UNUM one can see the exergue line of the undertype and the date, with the 87 especially prominent. (click here for reverse detail of the CT date) ...
Why were coins overstruck? Some issues were struck to convert politically incorrect coins into current material. This seems to have been more of a factor during the Byzantine period than in the earlier periods.
King l. beside fire-altar, Ahuramazda above
Sear G6191, Alram 535 EF/VF, overstruck as usual, a really superb portrait
The unusual protrusion at the King's chin is the earflaps of his headdress.
Judd 110a - an 1846 Quarter Eagle Die Trial Overstruck with an 1846 Half Eagle Obverse
2002 Louisiana 50 States Quarter Dollar
1848 "CAL." Quarter Eagle
1796 Quarter Dollar
1796 "With Pole" Half Cent
1866 Seated Liberty Dime ...
It issued "token" silver coins and overstruck foreign coins. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, England began a massive recoinage program that created standard gold sovereigns and circulating crowns, half-crowns, ...
Important identification characteristics have 'accidentially' been overstruck.
In 1804 the Spanish dollars were overstruck by the Bank of England with a portrait of the King on the obverse and Britannia on the reverse, with an inscription BANK OF ENGLAND 1804 FIVE SHILLINGS DOLLAR.
Dated Year One = 132-133 AD, overstruck on a Roman provincial bronze coin. Seven-branched palm tree, 'Eleazar the Priest' / Grapes on tendril, Hebrew inscription 'Year one of the redemption of Zion'.
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GF26---JOHN HYRCANUS II. 67, 63-40 BC. Æ Prutah. Inscription overstruck over earlier coin (Anchor/Lily type H-467)/Double cornuopia overstruck over Lily. H-478. Nice aVF with portions of undercoin visible on both sides. $70 ...
Near centered on oversized flan, overstruck on coin of Justinian I-Maurice Tiberius, figure of Her. Const.
Minted in Alexandria. Overstruck on a 12 Nummi - the I (cross potent) B of the 12 Nummi is visible below the S.
Type:
542 (Justinian) Follis ...
An interesting double strike: an Agrippa As overstruck by a Germanicus As, with "TIAV" countermark at a regular position on the reverse of the Agrippa As ...
forces of Shim'on Ben Cosiba minted coins consisting of Silver tetradrachms, denarii and assorted bronzes. Due to a shortage of metal, probably a shortage of time, and possibly as an affront to the Romans, the silver coins were usually overstruck on ...
Thomas Machin and his partners made a speciality of producing fakes of whatever copper coins were being most widely accepted at the time. Since the popularity of each issue varied from one year to the next, he even overstruck the designs of one coin ...
Many of Hyrcanus' coins are overstruck on types of Jannaeus, and were prresumably minted not long afterthe latter's death.
postulate that this was accidentally made by the Philadelphia "Midnight Minters," (probably engraver George Eckfeldt and his son, Mint night watchman Theodore). In their haste to clandestinely supply the coveted 1851 issue, they overstruck an ...
The 1827 restrikes are well known because of the rarity of issues for the year, and were most likely surreptitiously made in the late 1850s, some with rusted dies and some overstruck on older quarters (a piece struck on an 1806 quarter is known).
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