error five pence coin?

[kes hurst 0]

Hello...

i'm new to this forum and to coins...

i've recently been helping a friend to clear outhis dead relatives house and come across a number of these 5 pence coins, with letters from the Royal Mint..

please take a look at the uploaded pictures...

apologies for the poor pics of the coins, i have left them in the sealed coin bags..

any help wuth information on these and their value will be greatly appreciated..

thankyou in advance.

kieran

[Generic Lad 25]

Undoubtedly with the accompanying letter, they are worth more than 5p. The good news is that out of all the errors, wrong planchet errors are some of the most desirable. But naturally they're worth more if you can identify what exactly it was struck on which off of the top of my head I don't know what it would be that it was struck on, but since the Royal Mint made the coins for a multitude of different nations in the 1970s it perhaps might not even be UK coin. The bad news is that the coin doesn't really look different than most 5p coins and less dramatic errors tend to fetch less than more dramatic. For example, your coin would be worth quite a bit more if it was struck on a copper-colored blank intended for a 1/2p, 1p or 2p coin, rather than the silver-colored blank it is struck on now.

If you could provide a weight of the coin in grams, that would assist us in identifying what it might be.

[kes hurst 0]

the coins weigh 5.7 grammes each....