VICTGRIA halfpenny?

[1949threepence 3,366]

Somebody on facebook just posted this really interesting pic of the VICTORIA ON AN 1894 halfpenny.

Looks like an inverted G for the O.

Or it might just be an issue with the die.

 

 

Edited January 27, 2021 by 1949threepence

[mrbadexample 985]

It's a pretty weird G? Very long middle bit. 

[Rob 3,000]

Immediate reaction is that it doesn't appear to be the same font as the other G. That raises suspicion. A bigger picture would help.

[PWA 1967 1,841]

Just looks like an O to me ,either the coin is damaged or the O is partly blocked.

[Peckris 2 2,043]

I can just make out the O - the G would be underlying if an error overstruck? Also, errors of that kind so late (i.e. after Mint electrification) are vanishingly rare except for dates. Interesting though.

[blakeyboy 1,601]

If you hit the '0' with a blunt small chisel with an oblique blow, it would cut the circle and 'pile up' some of the bronze,

giving that look of the bar of a 'G'....and lo and behold, through the gap in the 'G', there is a shallow groove,

looking to be a depression below the level of the field.

The thinning of the 'O' above the 'bar' of the 'G' looks like the effect of localised corrosion.

 

Maybe...:)