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Erroneous 10p

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 Posted 02/17/2015  10:57 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add fishsticks to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers

Hi,

There are a couple of similar posts on the forum (including one just below this one), but I don't know much about coins and would be grateful for any information about this one:

Erroneous-10p

I received it in change a while ago and I think the year is 2014 - hard to tell because the final digits of the year haven't impressed properly. There is a small depression where the 14 should be, which is directly opposite a large blob of extra metal (slightly raised) on the reverse of the coin, below the lions.

From the replies to the other posts I assume that is unlikely to be a forgery but instead a defective coin. I'd be very interested to know whether there is a particular name for this kind of error, if it is common, and of course whether it is an interesting curiosity or valuable collectable :)

Thanks!
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 Posted 02/17/2015  11:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fishsticks to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I've just done some searching and the error in my coin is almost identical to this one:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10p-pence...047675.l2557

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It is a large peripheral die break, also known as a " Cud" error. The weakness at the date is normal and is caused by excessive metal flow into the die break void.
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 Posted 02/18/2015  04:12 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fishsticks to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks biokemist6!
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