An extreme reverse double strike
Lot 1724
CILICIA. Seleucia ad Calycadnum. Trebonianus Gallus, 251-253. Hexassarion (Bronze, 37 mm, 21.00 g, 6 h). ΑΥ Κ ΓΑ ΙΟΥΛΙ ΤΡΕΒΩ ΓΑΛΛΟC Radiate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trebonianus Gallus to right, seen from behind. Rev. CЄΛЄYKЄΩ/N / TΩN ΠPOC ΤΩ KAΛYK/AΔNΩ Draped busts of Apollo, laureate, and Artemis-Tyche, wearing kalathos, facing one another, branch between them; to right, cornucopiae. RPC IX 1332. SNG Levante 783 var. (differing reverse legend arrangement). SNG Paris 1046. The reverse heavily double struck and with light deposits, otherwise, very fine.

Ex The New York Sale 60, 9 January 2024, 218, and Rex Numismatics E-Auction 1, 15 July 2023, 298.
The provincial coins of Seleucia ad Calycadnum often exhibit double strikes, though rarely as extreme as on the reverse of the present specimen, which was struck twice with a pronounced displacement. Interestingly, the error had no effect on the well-struck obverse, perhaps offering a clue to the striking process: evidently, the flan remained firmly positioned against the obverse die during both blows, while only the reverse was struck out of alignment
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