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New Member
United Kingdom
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Hi my names Bev. Iam new to the forum. I don't collect coins but come across a five pence in my change last year. I have had the coin examined by The Royal Mint museum. And received a letter of authentication the coin the obverse and reverse dies is incorrect at 180 degrees. I would like to know if anybody else as one Thanks |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Nope - never found a significant rotation error. 180* is a darn good one though!
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Interesting find Bev ! I will check a few 2008 5p coins I have and start looking out ASAP before the RM pulls out all the cupronickel 5p`s from circulation ......
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
252 Posts |
I have heard of this error, but have only been able to find slightly rotated examples (Generally less than 15% at a guess)
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I had a dozen of them or so at one time, all retrieved from one single bag of new coins. One sold for £4.77 on ebay, rest still sitting in my spares tin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Which coins had this error ? I ask because there are 2 types of 5p coins released from 2008 .....
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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I know that in 2008 there was the first year of the Royal Shield design and the last time that thisle reverse was used on the 5 pence.
Royal Shield since then and in 2011 the metal was changed to nickel-plated steel.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
1321 Posts |
The errors are on the shield type from 2008 - I always check for any when I get one in change but so far have never found any more.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I have one of the "Error 5p", with the upside down reverse.I am a bus driver, and so get to check over £1,000 of change every week.
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New Member
United Kingdom
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I now have 2 of these error 5p from 2008.I acquired one several months ago.I acquired my second one yesterday in my change from a drinks machine at work.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Interesting news , well done !
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New Member
United Kingdom
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So far,I still have only 2 of the error 5p.I am aware that to date, there are 9 known, of which I have 2.i get £30.00 of 5p every week from mu local bank and post office(staggered over a few days), and I have only found 38 dated 2008, and no more errors.It seems that 2008 are a very scarce coin to find in circulation.Load sof 2101 onwards.I think The Royal Mint have tried to take them all out of circulation. |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Just to clarify - when you said there 9 known , is that in the entire country ?
Edited by DaytR
07/12/2013 4:41 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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DaytR I have three 2008 5p with the reverse at 45 degrees, drop me a PM if you'd like one (free)
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks for the offer andyg ,I am not yet able to send PM`s through this site yet - I will take you up on the offer soon enough when I am able  |
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Valued Member
United Kingdom
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puts my five pence error coin to shame :p, mine has no rotation error that I know of, but instead have the letters c and v filled in, ill try and upload a photo soon. Also found a 20 pence coin with a little blob of metal on the queens mouth, not really anything special or big but though for 20p bugger it ill keep it ahah.
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