coinman18 Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 Hi all, Right i have found this brass three pence in a load of coins i had today. on the heads side everything is normal on the reverse side there is nothing there, theres like a lip all around that goes in the coin. iv tryed uploading a pic but will not work for some reason, ill try again tomorrow. can anyone tell me anything about it from what i have described. Quote
Peckris Posted September 30, 2011 Posted September 30, 2011 Hi all, Right i have found this brass three pence in a load of coins i had today. on the heads side everything is normal on the reverse side there is nothing there, theres like a lip all around that goes in the coin. iv tryed uploading a pic but will not work for some reason, ill try again tomorrow. can anyone tell me anything about it from what i have described.It COULD be a misstrike, or else it's been machined after it left the Mint. We'd need to see a picture - the maximum size per post is 150k, you may need to compress or reduce the size to get it to post. Failing that you could upload to Flickr or Photobucket and link to it here. Quote
Red Riley Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 It's been put on a lathe which has made the reverse look like an LP record. Quote
TomGoodheart Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 Yeah, it's been machined out after it was put into circulation. People used to (and still do perhaps) do that to two coins, leaving a reverse and obverse; one also lathed to a smaller diameter so they fitted together to form a small box. I inherited the face side of a penny someone has done this to and believe the 'bottom' went missing sometime. Maybe yours was like that once?A curiosity but not valuble at all I'm afraid. Quote
Generic Lad Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 The coin also might have been modified to allow the obverse of another threepence to fit in there and then they would glue it together to make a coin that was heads on both sides. Quote
coinman18 Posted October 1, 2011 Author Posted October 1, 2011 Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again. Quote
Peckris Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again.Why not keep it as a curio? I used to keep all kinds of things like that when I was poring over bags of coins from the banks before decimalisation! Quote
Generic Lad Posted October 1, 2011 Posted October 1, 2011 Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again.Why not keep it as a curio? I used to keep all kinds of things like that when I was poring over bags of coins from the banks before decimalisation!I agree, after all, it didn't cost you anything! While it certainly isn't going to be worth a ton, it is still worth hanging onto. Quote
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