hi I'm new to this and to the site. but ive found a 2011 standing on the shoulders of giants £2 coin with a 170-180 degree rotation error and I havent been able to find anything about it or find any thing about others out there. the only thing I've found that was close was the posts about the 5p with a simlar error on this site. so has anyone seen one before and how common are they. thanks mike
Is the entire coin design on one side rotated with respect to the other side, or is it just the central core? The central core of a British £2 coin, like any other similarly structured bimetallic coin, can be "rotated" by popping the centre out by force and shoving it back in at a different angle.
Some pictures might help.
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Yes, assuming it's a genuine £2 coin, then it does indeed have a die rotation error.
My main worry at this point is that it's far more likely to be a fake £2 coin than an actual mint error - the counterfeiters are more likely to get the rotation wrong than The Royal Mint. The details on the reverse, particularly the fine details of the cog-wheels and the scrollwork diffraction pattern in the centre, don't look right to me. BUt I'd await the judgement of some of our British members, who handle more £2 coins than I do.
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Unfortunately it's a counterfeit. The same type of coin was recently featured on Fake Britain - Fake Britain BBC iPlayer Series 6 Episode 5 (Skip to 19 minutes in) Although the one in the program didn't have as big a rotation error.
Here's one of mine, with the same missing metal on the join and similar rotation.
Thanks for posting the link to "fake Britian" I am not sure that people outside the UK will be able to view it but the relevant section is 19:00 in and a section on fake collectable coins at 36:40.
If this is a genuine £2 coin, then why not checking the centre hologram/optical security feature. If genuine, it should form no image in most light angles but try tilting it untill you see a clear, bright image in the center. This coin was designed with this optical security feature (Standing on shoulders of giants), sadly the new £2 wasn't. It would take a lot of effort from counterfeiters to replicate this.
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Posted 12/01/2015 01:19 am
