Why do Some of the 2 Cent Pieces from look like this
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This is the same coin but you can see that the SD and the toe look to be deformed.
Natural wear and tear as I see it.
Not really sure sorry mate but think it's where something moves so it ends up like doubling, like on the 2001 50 cent where there tends to be a lot of doubling and it's quite common on the newer coins, poor quality control at the mint but one of the others might know or have a better idea :good:
It's only on Perth mint coins,
It can't be wear and tear because there is no loss of metal.
I think it may be a precursor to the no SD coins.
Looks like a cud to me, I'm sure this was covered here or on CCF a while back.
Quote from: 'trout' pid='68366' dateline='1425686859'Looks like a cud to me, I'm sure this was covered here or on CCF a while back.
It was and I think I might have even had a finger in the pie, but can't recall where or when. :dontknow:
I did Start the thread on CCF.
http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=180085
But the tread has died.
This forum seems to have more activity than CCF so I was hoping to get it started here.
It is definitely an error of some sort but given that it has been in existence for 49 years I thought it may have been an error that was to common to be anything of significance.
Hopefully one of our experts may have an explanation of how it occurs. I was sort of thinking along the lines of a badly worn die, but if that's the cause, you'd expect to see more evidence in other places on the coin. :scratch_one-s_head:
Ok so i over layered the rough size of a 2 cent over the area of the coin and this is what I came up with.
You can see that all the miss alignments in the coin line up with the edge of the high light.
How could something like this happen.
Could a piece of the die have been broken loose letting part of the die move during the strike.
I still think it's some sort of strange doubling but we need Mark or one of the others in the know to step in :)