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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Might I suggest only handling the coin with gloves? If this is a genuine error then it's definitely going to command a price, and any residue from fingerprints and such will serve to detract. Welcome to the community, by the way  Edited by Collector28
08/02/2020 05:13 am
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I mentioned this coin to someone that I know and they suggested if you on Facebook that the pictures of the coin get posted to the Two Pound Coin Collectors Group £2 since it is not an error that is known.
Did you recently acquire this coin? If so, was it in change or in a bag of coins from the bank or post office?
It does look like the UK cash centres been receiving requests for £2 coins, hence why we seeing new looking 2015 and 2016 coins in circulation.
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New Member
 United Kingdom
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I am going to have the coin appraised by an expert tomorrow.
I received the coin in change on Friday; looked at it and thought that the words did not seem to relate to the coin, so looked it up and here we are.
Thanks for the guidance about handling the coin - I will now be more careful.
Will let you know what the appraiser thinks.
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Formerly nancyc
Australia
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I don't have any first hand knowledge of these coins, but I did read somewhere that the center pieces can be removed (I think it was by freezing) and replaced by other centers not intended for that coin. Can't remember where I read it but it could only be 1 of 3 places I look up coins, CCF, Facebook or The Australian Coin Forum. I would be very suspicious of this coin. I may possibly have seen one of these topics: http://goccf.com/t/193954&whichpage=2http://goccf.com/t/332188life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved
Edited by Nevol
08/02/2020 7:58 pm
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Even if the centre piece were swappable, the edge inscription still wouldn't fit with the design, since the outer ring has the William Shakespeare design on it.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Any further update on this?
If you use Facebook, can you post the pictures of the coin to Two Pound Coin Collectors Group £2 page?
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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A coin with the same error was posted today to the Fifty Pence Coin Collectors Group 50p group around 22:15 UK time.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I have seen some more of these posted on Facebook - so it looks like four have been reported so far. We doubt that the mint is aware of this mistake and therefore, they will no been able to give us an idea of how many were made with this error.
Locations of finds so far:
Newcastle
Whitehaven
Dunblane
Edited by kena
08/08/2020 09:41 am
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Does anyone have any more on this? This is really an interesting error.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Its quite possible for it to be genuine. The K22 Act of the union £2 silver proof Has an error K22A same error but obviously different coins. Some blanks were inscribed with the abolition of slavery motto on the edge before the obverse and reverses were struck . The Royal Mint confirmed it to be genuine and as only 1 to date has been reported they admitted there may have been a batch that went out unnoticed figure not disclosed but they value it @ £1000. |
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United Kingdom
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How many do you suppose there could be? One would expect this to be pretty rare, but then again it could be that there are lots of them out there because it went unnoticed.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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I've sent an email to The Royal Mint about this, I will keep you all posted with what they say. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I am hearing that x8 coins with the error have been found.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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Royal Mint unable to confirm how many may have been produced, so really there's no telling how many there are.
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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One sold on ebay today for £230. A wise buy or not, one wonders... Edited by Collector28
08/13/2020 10:47 am
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