Uk~ Interesting Find From The Circulation In The Uk~

You saw them here first.... the first viewable pics of the new trio
(I hope to find the fourth design if it was done by the same people)

I forgot to mention the doubling on the obv on this one too!!




(Notice the four rim chips in this one ? This was the only coin to have them.. I assume its from the collar they're using to hold the coin?)
You can see the grainy texture coming across in this one too


All the edges are identical and to be honest are quite good.
There is a semi-circular mark in the pattern, which I have seen before (But can't track it down at the moment) which was more visible on some than others.


I'll take some natural light shots tomorrow on my cam & phone to try and give a better sense of the colours.


(PS While looking through my few fakes yet to be put online, I only went and found ANOTHER one from the hoard,
which I must have gotten a week or so before the influx....
It looks better quality metal, although the tell-tale sprue mark is there right above the queens ear.)

Uploaded in June 2014, Here's one that uses the same dies/process as the New Menai's (There's the Sprue again)
and also has, albeit in a slightly different place, the semi-circular mark in the edge pattern.

The motto is close, but not exact.... In the example above the pattern is more extended with a shorter gap either side of the dots)

Found the same die clash in 9 other Egyptian Arch coins, 5 of which are using the same dies (9,10,11,12 & 24 - as can be seen by the die crack/line protruding from the 0 in 06) and 3 of which (5, 7 & 29) have their own same dies, although 7 shows 'wood rings' in the centre of the arch whereas the other two don't (Wood rings seen in 5 coins total (3,7,15,17 & 32)

Also have 4 examples with die clashes showing in the Forth Bridge coins, one of which is rotated about 175', and the other three (30,36 & 38) are all a single clash, using the same die set. (Raised area obverse on the F of .F.D.) but none showing double rotated clashes as the new ones do.

My haul from change today:

- One Trinity House £2 (nice reverse, heavy bagmarks on obverse)
- One Olympic 50p (Gymnastics)
- Two Commonwealth Games 50p's (up until today, only ever seen one in the wild)
- One 1997 Mauritius 10 Rupees masquerading as a 50p!

Thanks for the info, RED.

Owing to various issues (cyberbullying etc) suffered by an acquaintance I have never joined either Facebook or Twitter. I am sure that most users are perfectly nice but I've never had any desire to join. Perhaps I'll have to some day!

Following on from the fake £1 coin I posted the other day here is a fake £2 coin I received today, the first I have had.
Date - 2003. Weight - 10.23g.







They didn't even bother with an edge inscription !

Thx Moral, I will go and sort it

I was somehow given the impression that only the new portrait would be on circulated coins this year
but after a few of these pennies have turned up, and a blurb by Westminster/RoyalMint (I forget which)
saying this year is unprecedented by having two portraits on the circulating coins,
I was clearly mistaken !!

Rescued this today from some change my brother had left on his kitchen table (I paid him face value for it) - Isle of Man 2010 pound coin: