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Now this is an Irish error coin...

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  • #2
    Judgement Day
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    There's someone for everything but it's a horrible looking mess and very homemade looking - just my one cent's worth. :D


  • #3
    Blade
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    Judgement Day wrote: »
    There's someone for everything but it's a horrible looking mess and very homemade looking - just my one cent's worth. :D

    You just don't see the beauty! It's gonna be a mess when it's been struck by 2 different dies. Believe me this is one rare ass error. If you examine the axis of both strikes you'll see they are correct for the type, both sides of a coin are struck in one go. Also if you tried to hammer one coin onto another at best you'd get a faint reversed image. The pressure required to strike a coin is... a lot!

    It is pretty well circulated though, obviously done a few rounds before someone spotted it.


  • #4
    gobnaitolunacy
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    Are T&T coins minted in the same place as Euros???


  • #5
    Blade
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    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Are T&T coins minted in the same place as Euros???

    That is quite possible, I was told by the Irish CB that particularly at the start of the Euro they had to get some coins minted abroad as they weren't able to keep up with the amounts needed. It's possible whatever mint that was, was also minting coins for T&T. Or a struck coin got mixed in with a load of blanks and got delivered to either the mint here or in T&T. Or any number of possibilities along that line!

    It wasn't totally unusual to find Irish decimal coins struck on foreign blank planchets, like even on weird shaped Indian coins. But what's very unusual about this one is that it was struck over a normal coin and not a blank.


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