You Are Invited to a 1946 1 Cent Die Clash Party!

 Posted 11/09/2011  9:09 pm

All the recent talk about George VI die clashes got me to look back at my "hoard" of George VI cents looking for die clashes. I was quite delighted when I started looking at my 1946 cents...there was a cornocopia to be found!

All these cents came to me together, so it is likely/possible that they represent a series of strikes following a single clash. For reasons related to the obverses of the last two coins that you will see later, it may be that there were two clashes.

Anyway, I have shot the coins and tried to assemble them in reverse chronological order starting with the one that followed the clash by the most time. Of course it is hard to say how many coins were struck in between these coins....perhaps quite a lot. I am guessing though that all of these are from the same bag of cents that left the mint (assuming they left in a bag in 1946).

So here we go......


Starting with the most recent, we see the half moon under the right hand leaf. As we go along, the moon gets larger and we see the hanging "4" start to appear. Then on the last two, we see the line forming under "cent".....

There are a couple of things tha make me wonder if the coins are all from the same clash. 1. On a couple of the coins, there seems to be a small line (die crack?) coming from the left point of the left leaf. Also, on the two coins struck most shortly after the clash (with the line under cent), the obverse has an identical line (die crack? die clash?) under the VI of George VI.

Any thought from the error experts? Enjoy the party!