Found These Two 5 Cent Coins Out Of Roll

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Allcoinage Pillar of the Community Australia 1510 Posts	Posted 11/21/2022 7:44 pm 1st image is a 1971 Australian 5 cent has a flaw that was there before it was struck also could be worn or a weakstrike coin, not sure whats with second coin. Both coins are smooth when you handle them and no reading on the 1971 but the reeding is on the 1977 coin. Edited by Allcoinage 11/21/2022 7:46 pm Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 16810 Posts	Posted 11/21/2022 9:28 pm The 1971 is simply very worn, perhaps with some old acid-damage (a "coca-cola coin"), or perhaps it's spent time in a rock polisher. The missing reeding confirms this. If by "flaw" you're referring to the stripe across the coin at the queen's eye-level, I suspect it's a lamination defect, normally invisible but that's been accentuated by the acid/wear damage. I'm not sure what you're seeing wrong with the 1977? Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Allcoinage Pillar of the Community Australia 1510 Posts	Posted 11/22/2022 06:23 am Both of these coins have similarities except one is darker the damage on the 1971 coin is definitely before striking this coin because it should have been indented across the top of the image it shows no evidence of it doing this. If it is worn then some of those spikes wouldn't be that big Report this Post to the Staff
Allcoinage Pillar of the Community Australia 1510 Posts	Posted 11/22/2022 06:48 am High points of coin would initially be worn before outer spikes so pretty much the 5 would be alot flatter than this and coke wouldn't do this too a coin maybe a chemical, acid in coke generally wears out over night. Report this Post to the Staff
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