Our example is also a good example of another point concerning provincial coins of this time and place. Flans were smoothed before striking with a lathe mechanism that left a recessed pit in the center of the blank. When dies were engraved a first step was to use a compass to layout a circular border of dots leaving a small dot in the center of the die (recessed on the die so raised on the coin). This small dot was usually erased from the die when the design was engraved but twin facing portraits like we see here left a space in the middle where the dot could survive. Between the two portraits we see the larger, recessed smoothing pit with the small, raised dot just at its edge at about 8 o’clock. It the coin where perfectly centered the dot would have fallen in the pit and been erased. As it is, our coin stands as an illustration on how the coins were made. Coins with this situation are common and a better example of the feature on another coin also makes this list. We will mention it here as a bonus.