Threepence error, der

[Australian coin]

Can you say vice job, pretty sure this is a backyard job
Wheat stalks on a ribbon year, so dumb, and people bid $40 on this!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1918-THREEPENCE-ERROR-/110965991566?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item19d616a88e

[trout]

Can you say vice job, pretty sure this is a backyard job
Wheat stalks on a ribbon year, so dumb, and people bid $40 on this!
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1918-THREEPENCE-ERROR-/110965991566?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item19d616a88e

WOW comes complete with the reverse imprint of a 9 and 5 as well
BARGAIN:kez_11:

[MobOfRoos]

Yep, the imprint is in reverse. So this was caused by another coin not by a die.

It is pretty depressing that people get sucked in by these shed job errors:police_car:

[bellyflorin]

the seller has a few more  shed jobbies for auction :dodgy: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1941-SIXPENCE-HUGE-ERROR-BOTH-SIDES-OF-SIXPENCE-/110965992792?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item19d616ad58

[Mister T]

But the seller did amend their listing (right at the bottom) to say it is probably fake on account of the different years.

[enworb]

I started off feeling sorry for people who buy this crap.... now i almost think they deserve it. If i want a coin i usually research it a little bit, especially an error i dont know much about. I realise this could be a new numismatist but this is what happens if they dont read first.

[Nevol]

Seller has way too many of these so called errors for it to be a coincidence.  Definitely a shed job, and looks like he uses a shill bidder to push up the price.  Has been on my list of Ebay germs since 17 June.  

There is simply no cure for stupidity.  How can anyone with even the tiniest bit of common sense believe that this happened during the minting process, 20 years before the wheat stalks were used on our coins.  

Here's his third piece of 'handiwork': http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1916-THREEPENCE-ERROR-DOUBLE-DIE-/110965992073?pt=AU_Coins2&hash=item19d616aa89