Dear readers Numismatica Ranieri in this post we are going to find out what are the errors of minting and the variants of the coinage. We will continue our analysis related to the world of numismatics, inclusive of the various phases, starting from the birth of a coin as we wrote in a previous article of our blog. Good read.
Errors of minting
For how man has always advanced in their work, thanks to the machines, certainly more precise, the human error is always present, two thousand years ago as it is today.
And so that we can see, even in the publications of sale, coins of the roman "curious" as bearing on the reverse, in place of the original footprint, the depiction of the law, incusa and speculate. It is, quite simply, a human error, the coin already coined, was not taken and, therefore, the new round poggiandovi above, has not received the imprint of the coin but the coin below.
Those who think that the error, thanks to modern technology, has completely disappeared must, unfortunately, think again. On the contrary, the coins of the Italian Republic with obvious typographical errors are almost the order of the day; news amplified thanks to the considerable interest with these “blunders” receive from fans.
Coins in a decentralized, poorly cut, minted with different metals from the original or missing part of the image are only some of the possible errors that you may encounter.
The variants of the coinage of the
When a coin is worn out as a result of wear and tear, you should replace it with a new one, around the same as the previous.
If, for an error of the person who prepared the coinage of the replacement is not perfectly identical to the sample, the specimens shall come forth; they present variants of the coin with respect to the samples. The lack of a letter in the legend.....AVG instead of AVGG) or a slight difference in the size of the head, are an example.
You can then summarize that a currency is a variant compared to the original when it presents one or more small differences, often discernible only with a direct comparison.
When these differences become obvious and important (see the head of the one part, instead of the other way) then we talk about different type.
Conclusions
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