Almost went in the Dirty Coin Bag

[The Bee]

Hi

I occasionally, rather than buy old PVC coin albums to search, I buy a large circulated "penny" accumulation. Invariably it contains all kinds of stuff with it. Typically very worn :17th and 18th century British coins; "modern" GB Farthings and Halfpennies (George V onward); coins that have been used to undo screws; 19th French; other non UK; tokens;  plastics buttons etc

Anyway as a means to relax I bought a jumbo accumulation which arrived this week. As always I do a first sort (pull out all pennies by reign and then I'll do another pass through looking for varieties QV - GVI). I also have a "dirty coin bag" on hand into which I deposit the worst of the worst !  

I was motoring through ... reverse yep its a 1943 Half Penny .. flip over to the obverse  .. ouch what a mess and reached out the dirty coin bag and then stopped to have a closer look

Images below

Hope you enjoy it ! Its been filed at the end of the half penny collection with other weird finds

Wondered if anyone else still buys jumbo mixed lots of circulated coins to search 

Very Best Regards

Richard

 

 

[SilverAge3]

Looks like delamination.

[jelida]

Wrapped in tape and dipped in acid. We’ve discussed this effect before on this forum.

Jerry

[copper123]

A tram went over it? At the top anyway

[The Bee]

Many thanks for the comments,

It hadn't occurred to me as it has just turned up randomly in a mass of coins, but yes could be that someone has masked parts of the surface (as you can with glass) and then applied acid to the unmasked areas to make it look as it look as if the half penny was damaged. 

Shame there isn't a similar (but safe !) way to gently remove the surface on on some of my pennies, where the date and design are virtually worn off. I'm sure in some cases there would be nothing to find but with others there may be quite a bit of information 

Anyway below might be a lamination error, its a George V 1920 Halfpenny (currently escaped) running from DEI downward

Great to get your thoughts

Very Best Regards

Richard

 

 

 

[jelida]

22 minutes ago, The Bee said:

Many thanks for the comments,

It hadn't occurred to me as it has just turned up randomly in a mass of coins, but yes could be that someone has masked parts of the surface (as you can with glass) and then applied acid to the unmasked areas to make it look as it look as if the half penny was damaged. 

Shame there isn't a similar (but safe !) way to gently remove the surface on on some of my pennies, where the date and design are virtually worn off. I'm sure in some cases there would be nothing to find but with others there may be quite a bit of information 

Anyway below might be a lamination error, its a George V 1920 Halfpenny (currently escaped) running from DEI downward

Great to get your thoughts

Very Best Regards

Richard

 

 

 

Yes, a nice example of a lamination flaw.

Jerry