Dear Board,
On the contrary, I find this all rather amusing. Dominic was trying to be upfront with
his humor while Jay was trying to go about it in
reverse.*
*Note: No coinage dies were harmed during the course of making these "cracks."
Best regards,
Mark Fox
Michigan
P.S.: On a more serious note, yes, both
reverse dies look identical to me, too, although they are in clearly different die sates. This has left me wondering...isn't the "earlier' use of the die in a more worn state than its "later" use? There are
many areas for comparison, but consider, in particular, the die
crack stretching from the last 'S' in "CONSTANTINVS."