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Fruitloop New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 04/23/2012 06:06 am Hi everyone I've stumbled across this site whilst trying to find out more about a coin I've found in my loft. Could anyone offer me some guidance? I believe it may be a straight clipped planchet but what about the line across the front of the coin? Any advice greatly appreciated! Report this Post to the Staff

sel_69l Bedrock of the Community Australia 21788 Posts	Posted 04/23/2012 09:16 am Fruitloop: Your coin may be, but you are not. BTW, Welcome to the CCF! Yep! It's genuine enough! I have similar errors from The Royal Mint; they are not VERY rare. What makes your coin intriguing is that it has three errors, and two of them happened at the same time, and all three are probably related. I think that a clipped blank was rimmed to form a planchet (not too well might I add), before proceeding to the coining press. The clipped nature of this piece has caused a feed problem into the press so that it was struck off centre and has been struck by another planchet before leaving the press, thus leaving the curved line on the reverse. That's MY theory, anyway. Anyone else wish to shoot it down? Edited by sel_69l 04/23/2012 09:19 am Report this Post to the Staff
Fruitloop New Member United Kingdom 2 Posts	Posted 04/23/2012 09:42 am Hmmmm - not sure what you mean by your initial comment! But thanks for the info -my son and I were trying to find out more about this yesterday but we struggled to understand where it stood amongst all the different error types. Will be interested to hear other views too as between myself and my son, we have absolutely no knowledge about coins at all. The info I find on Royal Mint talks about them being very tight on quality control so I half thought this must be some very poor attempt at counterfeiting! Thanks Fruitloop Report this Post to the Staff
Wade Pillar of the Community Canada 2781 Posts	Posted 04/27/2012 10:23 pm looks like someone manually cut down a planchet from another denomiation so it would fit in the press. maybe it was take your kid to work day or something (just kidding, but it does look pretty amateur) Report this Post to the Staff
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