Brockage Mint Error Nice F Elagabalus 218-222 AD AE17 As Antioch Syria Mint

 

ER115849. Bronze as, cf. BMC Galatia p. 203, 440; McAlee group 1, 777; Lindgren I 2004; SNG Righetti 2001; Waage 583; RPC Online VI T8037, Nice F, brockage mint error, dark patina, earthen deposits, porosity, 5.009g, 17.4mm, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, AVT K M AVP ANTΩNINOC C, laureate head right; reverse incuse of obverse (normal reverse: S C, Δ above, E below, all within laurel wreath)

 

A brockage occurs when a blank is struck with a previously struck coin which adhered to the opposite die. Click here to read a detailed explanation.