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BillSnyder Pillar of the Community 778 Posts	Posted 04/08/2012 8:21 pm As you know, a Cap (or Die Cap) takes the shape of a soft drink bottle cap after it, a normally struck coin, becomes stuck to (and acts for) a Die as new blank planchets enter the chamber. Looking 'into' the Cap - The side view. Please note the word "florin" and the thickness of the piece - and a view of the other side - Bill Edited by BillSnyder 04/09/2012 11:47 am Report this Post to the Staff

Peter THOMAS Pillar of the Community Australia 2830 Posts	Posted 04/08/2012 9:41 pm lovely piece; great pics; thankyou for sharing. Report this Post to the Staff
svslav Pillar of the Community United States 2605 Posts	Posted 04/08/2012 10:10 pm Would be great for "look under the cap and see what you win" deals. Report this Post to the Staff
copper nickel daddy Pillar of the Community United States 2224 Posts	Posted 04/08/2012 10:15 pm That's a beautiful error! Thanks for posting. Report this Post to the Staff
sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 04/09/2012 01:19 am A rare and very valuable error. Makes me wonder how it managed to escape from the Mint. Report this Post to the Staff
Anaximander Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 709 Posts	Posted 04/09/2012 09:21 am Thanks for posting an amazing coin. I too wonder how it escapes the quality control. Report this Post to the Staff
BillSnyder Pillar of the Community 778 Posts	Posted 04/09/2012 09:31 am My guess is that it was kept as a souvenir by a Mint official or foreman. Report this Post to the Staff
CaptainFwiffo Pillar of the Community United States 4132 Posts	Posted 04/09/2012 09:38 am WANT Report this Post to the Staff
Anaximander Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 709 Posts	Posted 04/09/2012 10:01 am Re the comment by BillSnyder: I think this must be a fairly common way of errors and oddities escaping into the world at large. I recently saw for sale a 2/6 ( two shillings and sixpence = half crown ) banknote from the beginning of WW2, at a snippet under £5,000. They were never issued, being withdrawn and supposedly all pulped. But a few were "liberated" by one of the workmen just before pulping. Report this Post to the Staff
ilikeikes Pillar of the Community United States 1205 Posts	Posted 04/14/2012 9:30 pm Picture-perfect post for this error--awwwwwesome.... Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10458 Posts	Posted 12/25/2014 5:06 pm ...and wow!! "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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