ERROR Coin- Half penny mystery 1947

[Englishpicker]

Hi. I was going through some old pennies and half pennies that I picked up today and came across this. Wanted to see what you guys think. It got a ARG. Stamped in relief on the kings head and other lettering on the edge, aswell as raised lettering in another grove . Looks like another coin has be mashed on top of it a few times. The strange thing about it is that the .GRA appers on the geogre the 5th coin but this is a geogre the 6th coin. Any ideas...???

[Englishpicker]

A close up

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[Rob]

Hi. I was going through some old pennies and half pennies that I picked up today and came across this. Wanted to see what you guys think. It got a ARG. Stamped in relief on the kings head and other lettering on the edge, aswell as raised lettering in another grove . Looks like another coin has be mashed on top of it a few times. The strange thing about it is that the .GRA appers on the geogre the 5th coin but this is a geogre the 6th coin. Any ideas...???

I suggest that someone has put the above coin and a George V coin in a vice and squeezed them together because the GRA is reversed incuse and so was done by something in the same vein as a regular coin. It would not have been done by the mint.

[Englishpicker]

The other side is not as marked.

[Englishpicker]

Hi. I was going through some old pennies and half pennies that I picked up today and came across this. Wanted to see what you guys think. It got a ARG. Stamped in relief on the kings head and other lettering on the edge, aswell as raised lettering in another grove . Looks like another coin has be mashed on top of it a few times. The strange thing about it is that the .GRA appers on the geogre the 5th coin but this is a geogre the 6th coin. Any ideas...???

I suggest that someone has put the above coin and a George V coin in a vice and squeezed them together because the GRA is reversed incuse and so was done by something in the same vein as a regular coin. It would not have been done by the mint.

Hi

I thought of somethings like this, but some letters in indented ie below the surface ( explained by the vice idea) and some is raised up above the surface like a normal coin would look with the letters the right way round, just in the wrong place. And this would only happen if the thing that pressed into the coin was the reverse image, such as a dye. I mean the coins bashed to hell, It just puzzles me as to how this came about.

[Rob]

Hi. I was going through some old pennies and half pennies that I picked up today and came across this. Wanted to see what you guys think. It got a ARG. Stamped in relief on the kings head and other lettering on the edge, aswell as raised lettering in another grove . Looks like another coin has be mashed on top of it a few times. The strange thing about it is that the .GRA appers on the geogre the 5th coin but this is a geogre the 6th coin. Any ideas...???

I suggest that someone has put the above coin and a George V coin in a vice and squeezed them together because the GRA is reversed incuse and so was done by something in the same vein as a regular coin. It would not have been done by the mint.

Hi

I thought of somethings like this, but some letters in indented ie below the surface ( explained by the vice idea) and some is raised up above the surface like a normal coin would look with the letters the right way round, just in the wrong place. And this would only happen if the thing that pressed into the coin was the reverse image, such as a dye. I mean the coins bashed to hell, It just puzzles me as to how this came about.

One possibility is that a defaced coin was used in the vice, or alternatively the host coin could have been a mistrike in the first place and someone though they would just add a bit of decoration. I certainly think it has been in a vice though because the reverse is flat in the area where the incuse bit is on the obverse. If a coin has been meddled with (and this one certainly has), then anything is possible.

Edited December 6, 2011 by Rob