Extremely Rare Byzantine Empire Gold Solidus Struck Over Brockage

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Extremely Rare Byzantine Empire
Gold Solidus Struck Over Brockage

This is a Byzantine Empire Gold Solidus from 613-641 depicting Heraclitus and Heraclitus Constantine. It was double struck and the first strike was a brockage on the reverse.

I have handled many double struck and off-center ancient and Byzantine gold coins, even a few brockages. A strike over a brockage is very rare and only the second one that I have handled.

Brockages are featured in
my NLG Award winning book,
World's Greatest Mint Errors.

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