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1910 One Penny Error ?

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 Posted 05/16/2012  7:11 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add Misskelly to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Hi there I'm brand new here so I just learning the ropes
I have had this 1910 one penny for about ten years and was wondering if anyone knows more about it



1910-One-Penny--Error-?




1910-One-Penny--Error-?
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05/17/2012 12:16 am
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 Posted 05/17/2012  4:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Numismat to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Not a mint error, an altered coin.
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 Posted 05/17/2012  8:00 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Misskelly to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks how can you tell its altered?
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 Posted 05/17/2012  11:51 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Hello and welcome to the forum.

Sadly, I can confirm that what you have is not a mint error. Your coin came out of the mint looking like a perfectly ordinary 1910 penny. Sometime afterwards, this damage was done to it.

This effect was produced by stacking three perfectly normal coins on top of each other, then squeezing them together in a vice-like apparatus or perhaps by being placed under a heavy piece of furniture or machinery for many years. The designs of the two outer coins have impressed themselves onto the middle one (and probably vice-versa, too). This was the middle coin. The obverse (bottom pic) has had the obverse of a smaller coin of Edward VII (such as a halfpenny) squeezed into it. The reverse (top pic) had the obverse of another penny squeezed into it. I should point out that this second penny was of George V, not the same king that appears on the obverse; George V did not appear on coins until 1911.
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 Posted 05/20/2012  9:21 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Misskelly to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks you for helping me out :)
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