Domitian as Caesar: die clashing damage on obverse. Denarius

Domitian as Caesar: die clashing damage on obverse; 70-81 AD, Rome, 80-1 AD, Denarius, 3.13g. RIC-266 (C2), BM-92, Paris-76, C-397 corr. Obv: CAESAR D[I]VI [F DO]MITIANVS COS VI[I] Head laureate r. Rx: PRINCEPS - IVVENTVTIS Garlanded and lighted altar on three steps. Die clashing often damaged reverse dies, for example by impressing a shallow, mirror-image outline of the obverse portrait into the reverse fields. This denarius of Domitian as Caesar shows the opposite case, which is much more unusual: the depressions before Domitian's forehead and behind his head seem to reproduce the steps below his altar on the reverse turned upside-down, that is damage to the obverse die caused by the reverse die through clashing. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection.. Fine