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SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 7:16 pm It came in a lot of world error coins. Misaligned die and clipped planchet. An ugly duckling of a coin. Edit: thread moved to world coins forum, thanks to those in this thread for their help. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff

Seeker55 Pillar of the Community United States 634 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 7:38 pm For best results, please provide weight and diameter with all ID requests. At first glance, this one looks like a possible Maldives coin to me. Also, by the way, I wouldn't call this an error coin. It is typical for hand-struck coins to be off-center and on irregular planchets. Edited by Seeker55 02/18/2023 7:46 pm Report this Post to the Staff
mrwhatisit Pillar of the Community United States 2953 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 7:41 pm Im seeing a 1320 (1902) date on the very bottom of this coin. Does not look silver to me... Ok, with Maldives (confirmed in Krause catalog), and is a 4 Lariat denomination KM#-40.2 Edited by mrwhatisit 02/18/2023 7:52 pm Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 7:57 pm Quote: Also, by the way, I wouldn't call this an error coin. It is typical for hand-struck coins to be off-center and on irregular planchets. You can call this anything you want - except not a hand-struck coin. This coin has a rim, and with the clip and how the edges dovetail into the clip, it went through an upset mill to create a Type 2 planchet. This is is a milled coin, albeit, a poor one. This coin is 4.49 grams. My guess is early 1900s, but searching the Krause is painful when they don't list all the weights for early copper strikes. Even if I get a lead on the country, that will help immensely. "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
Seeker55 Pillar of the Community United States 634 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 8:11 pm Following up on mrwhatisit's astute detection of the date, and using the weight to look up possibilities in Zeno, this is a Maldives 4 lariyat, Muhammad Imadaddin Iskandar, Male mint, AH 1320 (AD 1902), KM#40.1 https://www.zeno.ru/showphoto.php?photo=95441 May well be crudely machine-struck, with misaligned strike and clipped planchet apparently typical for this type of coin, as shown by several examples in Zeno. Edited by Seeker55 02/18/2023 8:18 pm Report this Post to the Staff
SPP-Ottawa Moderator Canada 10456 Posts	Posted 02/18/2023 8:24 pm Awesome. Thanks a bunch. This is not my coin, but I am helping a friend with his "world error hoard"... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert Oppenheimer Content of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_US My eBay store Report this Post to the Staff
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