markn
Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
A nice incomplete planchet / clipped planchet error. Lovely fishtailing of the legends near the missing region of the coin.
markn
Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Click image to enlarge Unusual to see an Australia decimal coin with a elliptical clipped planchet. Note metal flow across both sides of the coin and reverse strike weakness. Graded by PCGS as having been struck on a 3.5gram scrap …
Australia 1979 2 Cent PCGS MS64RB Elliptical Clipped Planchet Error Read More »
purplepenny
Posted in Error Coins
Click image to enlarge At 7.5g this coin is significantly underweight for an Australian 20 cent piece (11.31g). It’s actually been struck on a wrong planchet, not just a wrong planchet but a foreign planchet. In 1979 (as per the …
Australia 1979 20c PCGS MS64 Struck on Nepal Rupee Planchet Read More »
markn
Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Large straight clipped planchet or end of bar. Unusual because there’s little apparent metal flow but this might be because the missing part of the planchet was attached when the coin was struck and then separated later.
purplepenny
Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
This 20 cent error has been struck out of collar, then struck for a second time on it’s way out of the press against a blank planchet that was in the press.
purplepenny
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The legends show evidence of more than one strike here with partial engagement of the collar die. The indent site shows a distorted enlarged partial obverse design (brockage). An exceptional error.
purplepenny
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Weak strike reverse from oil or grease on the die during striking. Often called die fill or greasy die.
purplepenny
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A high grade decimal coin with two errors.
purplepenny
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Clipped planchet or bitten edge error 50 cent.
purplepenny
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This coin the subject of the 2012 article in CAB magazine “Charles and Diana -A flawed pair”. Struck without collar.