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richardbuick

William & Mary 1689 Half Crown with error in GVLIELMVS

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I've come back to collecting early milled coins after a break of a few years. I have a very nice 1989 William & Mary Half Crown with a couple of errors. The one that interests me, is the error in the spelling of GVLIELMVS where the E has its top missing. This is listed in my only Spinks catalogue of 2006 on page 328 but does not appear in the latest edition as confirmed by a friend ( I don't have a recent Spinks) Anyone got any thoughts on this please?

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I don't usually get into errors of this sort, but I can confirm it is not mentioned in my 2018 Spink. No idea when it dropped out.

I also checked my copy of ESC - 6th edition 2015 - and it is not mentioned there as far as I can see. Not sure if it was just regarded as die-fill and so not worthy of a separate mention?

 

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I would think die-fill most likely as I can see a ghosting of that missing upper horizontal.

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