1935 Hong Kong 10c DDO

Thanks Tanman. I'm like you in that regard, not doing much with foreign coins. But their sure seems to be some extreme errors and varieties posted recently. (Just look at how many are used as examples on Error-ref.com)

And I think the age of the equipment, maybe even more lax Quality Control at foreign mints, and a minimal number of collectors makes varieties and errors more of a possibility for foreign coins.

There was a reason some countries contracted with the US to produce their coinage and quality control may have been a large part of the decision.

Excellent find! Nice DDO!

I agree with the comments regarding DDO

It is the reverse that bothered me.

I have seen what was reported as a fake of this date and denomination made not from copper nickel, but silver.
After looking at the reverse on the NGC World Coin Values example, I am now not quite so sure that it was a fake, but perhaps made from the same 8oo fine silver alloy as the HK 1932-3 silver 5 Cents coins.

Certainly, on the picture of the reverse of the NGC World coin example, the lettering is of the same very poor quality as the reverse of the OP's coin pictured here, that is the subject of this thread.

I agree that minting standards of the British Royal Mint at this time were of consistently very high standard, and thus find it difficult to explain why? the quality of the reverse lettering of the subject coin in this thread, and the NGC pictured example are both so very poor.

Looking at the reverse only, fake or not?
Opinions?

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Apart from the two coins mentioned above, none of the 1935 Hong Kong Ten Cents available for sale as pictured on Google images have defective reverse lettering.