Richjb89

9th of April I've been informed.

The sleeve freely opens and closes. No damage or seals broken.

I still have the original sleeve that it's been kept in. I've only removed it twice. Once to examine and secondly for those photos. Don't worry. It's a perfect coin otherewise!

So it's possible a whole batch of these has been made. As a die clash would have effected any subsequent coins certainly? I'll have to ask them!

In layman terms what exactly has gone wrong in the process? From my point of view the coin is placed in a machine struck. Then struck again for added detail (Unique to the coins struck by customers if I recall correctly). Has something gone wrong in the second strike? If so how?

Hi there. I'm new to the forum and looking for little help. Recently me and my girfriend visited the Royal Mint outside Cardiff where I had the opportunity to mint my own new £1 coin. After the tour (which we would recommend) we minted our own coin. I had never seen a new £1 coin so had a quick look at in the the protective case. It was a bit weird on the queens face but thought not much of it and forgot all about it. A couple of weeks later when the coins reached circulation I noticed our coin was a bit different. I went back to have a look and it seems our coin has an error. The back of the coin has been printed over the queens face. It's not a double sided coin as the queens face is there but you can also see a perfect indentation of tails side over the queen. The tails side is seems completely normal and highly detailed (I believe the tour guide mentioned the coins visitors mint are higher detail). Anyone hear of this happening before? Any clue how it happened? Pics to follow. Thanks