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by purplepenny Posted in Error Coins, Great Britain Coins
British 1970 5 New Pence Struck on Split Planchet

5p coin struck on an underweight blank. The planchet split in half parrallel to the face of the coin prior to the coin being minted, tell-tale metal striations can be seen on the obverse. The coin was struck after the split occurred. Weight is 2.76g, almost exactly half of the 5.65g a complete coin should weigh. It shows extreme strike weakness due to the very thin planchet.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Australia 1981 2c Indent Error with Partial Collar

A high grade decimal coin with two errors.

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by purplepenny Posted in Australian Coins, Error Coins
Australia $2 Struck on Euro 10 cent Planchet

Struck on a foreign planchet and PCGS graded.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Australia $2 Clipped Planchet

A stunning high grade $2 struck on an incomplete planchet with fishtailing present.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
2007 $2 Out of Collar

This Australian $2 coin has been struck without the third coin die, the collar. It’s the coin collar that applies the edge milling, none of which we can see on this coin. It hasn’t spread far enough to call it a broadstrike but it’s nearly there, one could nickname it a pancake coin.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Australia 2009 $2 Double Struck

Off-centre double strike with 2 dates.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins, Error Coins
Australia $2 Weak Strike

Easily mistaken for a $2 coin blank but look closely and you can see a very faint Ian Rank-Broadley portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.

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by purplepenny Posted in Error Coins, Pre Decimal Coins
Australia 1952A Penny Indent with Brockage Error

1952 A (Perth) Penny with brockage indent, choice unc.

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by purplepenny Posted in Error Coins, Pre Decimal Coins
Australia 1926 1/2d Ramstrike Error

A very rare early coin error, a 1926 halfpenny ramstrike with a high lip on a beautiful woodgrain planchet.

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by purplepenny Posted in Decimal Coins
Australia 1966 Operation Fastbuck Wallet

1966 Fastbuck Wallet, the rarest of the 1966 mint sets. Presented to Les Scorey by the Reserve Bank of Australia for his help in Operation Fastbuck delivering new coins ready for the changeover to decimal currency on February 14 1966. …

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