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New Member
United States
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Hi, I'm pretty new to collecting. I came across this 63 kroner with the 3 upside down and I have a couple questions. How does this happen, how rare is something like this, and does it increase value much? Thanks!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The date is correct !It is a 19 (upside down) 39 !  Only problem that I have is, I am having a little trouble matching the type to the date.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Very interesting error. I have never seen one like this before. |
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New Member
 United States
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That's what I thought at first! But the obverse matches the 1963 design rather than the 1939. I should have posted both pictures to begin with to avoid confusion.  |
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Moderator
 United States
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the design is km #826, but I don't find a mention of a rotated 3 in Krause or online. Could it be an altered 8  |
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New Member
United States
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I gathered a couple examples of other 1 krona pieces:   The 3 looks larger than the other digits. Could a die have been repaired to remove the upside down 3? |
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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The plot thickens.
It looks like the Mint may have had some slightly different approach to altering the dates, year after year, on the 'working' master dies.
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New Member
Sweden
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The coin has not the 3 upside down, it is from 1962. Probably with a damaged die or som kind of lamination.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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This Kroner, with its upsidedown 3, is, I think, a very neat error.
As I understand it, in the coin making process, a master craftsman creates a Hub. Its face looks very much like one side of the finished coin. Nothing is reversed on its face. This Hub is pressed into pieces of steel, which become Coin Dies. On the new Dies, all elements are reversed.
Rather than having the Master Craftsman make a whole new Hub as the year changes, the original Hub often made with only 3 date digits. When new Dies are pressed, a workman stamps that single last digit (for the then current year) into them.
(Sometimes you will notice that the last date digit on a coin is out of position. (Too high, too low, too far from the other digits, etc). And sometimes upsidedown. (Remember that the workman adding the number is looking at a Die, where everything is reversed).
Bill
Edited by BillSnyder
06/22/2015 1:09 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Sweden
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I have to agree with my fellow Swede here (Hi  ) that this is actually a 1962 1 Krona with a piece missing to close the '2'. Maybe someone deliberately removed it to make it look like a 3, it got hit by something right there (thus PMD) or maybe it was an error. Doesn't look like that to me though. Edited by X2an
06/22/2015 1:20 pm
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