Posted 02/08/2020 7:55 pm
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The writing around the edge of the coin 'UNITED INTO THE KINGDOM' is upside down
The writing around the edge of the coin 'UNITED INTO THE KINGDOM' is upside down
Quoting from an ebay listing.
Is that what the suspected error is here?
I don't know enough about coin minting processes, but if it's anything like in the United States with edge lettering, it's added after the strike, rendering Type A and B Sacagawea/Native American/Presidential Dollars, with Type A vs B being the direction the edge lettering is going, either up or down from a "defined" point of reference (either obverse up or down).
As far as the color, it would appear that it's not possible to be struck on an all cupro-nickel planchet. The outer nickel-brass ring is pierced, which I would interpret to mean that a smaller cupro-nickel center blank is created in relatively the same size as it is found in the two pound coins, and put in the outer ring.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/4137...metal-money/
Unless it's been struck on a fifty pence planchet...what does the coin weigh?
