1860 Farthing Many Errors

I'll try my best to rescale them it's mainly on the observe side there's small cracks in the coin,the F and G have parts missing and also I don't know what to call it but it looks like 1 or 2 layers of the coin have either been punched deeper or vice versa ( I'm just guessing ) the faces of the coin are in beautiful condition no scratches or anything so I'm guessing it was minted this way I'll try to post the larger pics thanks for the reply Pertinax

Not so much errors as die failure. It just looks like the die started cracking and otherwise falling apart when this coin was struck. This type of occurence is not going to be listed in a book.

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On the contrary Victorian Copper + Bronze was notorious for errors mis-strikes , over-dates, Double struck coins Not as many as the charles II sixpences though :). In fact it is probably rarer to find a coin that has no error on it. Although some of the oddities do command high premiums.

I expect that in 1860 they were so desperate to get the new bronze coins out in quantity to replace the old copper ones that they tried to get as much use as possible out of each pair of dies... and perhaps they weren't used to striking the slightly harder bronze after the softer copper?