Hello,
do you have any fake circulating world coins (not silver/gold coins but "normal" coins)?
Some higher valued coins are often subject to faking (2 euro, 1 pound, etc.),
but what about this one? 1 dinar Yugoslavia 1974?
Wasn't that quite worthless, at the same time they introduced the 1000-dinar banknote!
Though, this one looks strange
So you mean like evasion coins ? Cos if you want those types which circulated in England and the British colonies it's very expensive ! Still rather collectible considering they circulated !
I agree about the fake 1 pound - and I had not seen any for ages but last week I got three in change. Today though I got a low value coin that I assume must be a fake; who would fake a UK 10 pence?
Could though be genuine, and is a rotation error 20° off.
A genuine coin is top left, and the obverse is aligned with the point of the portait lowest, so that then the reverse shield corner is horizontal and vertical. The lower right coin does not align correctly on reverse.
As a lot of fake 1 pounds are known for having not straight alignment, like some of those I got the other day. I'd have thought 50 pence would be next choice to make forgeries of, not 10 pence.
Verweis : ZacUKToday though I got a low value coin that I assume must be a fake; who would fake a UK 10 pence?
does it have the same kind of dull details like my 1 dinar coin?
If it has sharp details like the other, I would think the rotation is just a mint error
I think the 1 dinar is a genuine coin and not a fake. If the coin was a fake it has been produced to an extremely high standard and it is not a coin of much value. I think the dullness in the detail is caused by worn dies. Quality control for low value coins is more relaxed than it is for higher value coins so they will knowingly produce coins with worn dies.
I also think the Ten Pence is a genuine coin, the quality is again too high to be a fake coin it is immaculate in design detail and the only fault I could see was the alignment error. If you look at the quality of fake pound coins you will see that they are never as good as these coins.
Verweis : redsmithstudiosI am with Walder coins on both points, Zac I think you have a nice mint error
Thanks - as I know, you are a skilled redsmith; I remember a few days ago you wrote that you are also a blacksmith. As you know then, to make hand-made threads you need a plain bar, plus die and holder >
So as you see the M7 die has a dimple cut into it, which when in the holder it is held in place by the end of the holder screw. That is how it is in engineering, and I always assumed that coin-making would be the same. The obverse and reverse dies are fixed. There would be a dimple in the die and a screw in the holder, so it could not rotate. So how could an error like mine occur - if the screw has come undone, surely the die would fall out, rather than rotate. Unless it is the lower die, and only the top die could fall out; the lower die would just move about. Maybe that's it.
It could be that the Die was fixed in place but not in the correct orientation. Anything that relies on a human to make sure it is done correctly can go wrong.