Are These Coins Errors Or Fake?

Going to need better photos. And to the CCF

Thats fine. you should olny post one coin at a time anyway.
It's easier for us to give comments on one at a time

Certainly seems to be an error coin - a Cud I believe on the coin with the better picture. That is the good news - the less good is that sort of error on modern British coins is not massively sought after.

I've had a 10p with a very similar Cud:

Looks to me as if a chunk broke off the die then and a number of coins were struck before anybody spotted the problem and replaced it.

" Cuds" happen when a piece of the die - in this case, a rather large piece - breaks off. The "hole" in the die creates a raised area on the coin.

The blurring around the date area, that we can clearly see on NumisRob's example, is exactly what I would expect to see for such a large Cud. Coins are carefully designed so that their entire design on both sides is imparted at once by the striking. Having such a large piece break away from one of the dies disrupts those careful designs. The "hole" on one side means there's nothing to push against the coin in that spot, so there's less pressure on the opposite side where the hole is, so details show up as shallow and indistinct.

As for value, I'd think that a Cud or die chip that was sufficiently large to disrupt the metal flow and resultant design on the other side, would command a premium. How much of a premium I can't say, but it ought to be worth more than face value.

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