Just purchased a stack of Danish 5 øre from 1951-1964 for my collection, but while cataloguing it I noticed that there's apparently a variety where the number 5 is "slanted".
Thing is, on Numista it says that it's the 1951 that has this variety:
what a shame you didn't have a look at our site https://sites.google.com/site/coinvarietiescollection/home, since I actually documented it in 2012, but I only thought to have a look this morning! You'll find many other Danish variants there....
You can also find it in the forum "numista catalog", where I'll post it in a few seconds.
Fantastic! Just what I was looking for. I only checked the big 5 in the denomination, didn't occur to me to check the 5 in the date as well - I will check mine again when I get home :)
a coin is minted with the help of a die. The engraver normally makes his standard die WITHOUT the year or without only the last two digits. Then when a new year comes up, a copy of the standard die is made, the year die. In the copy the needed year is then engraved "manually". It happens, that the year die gets worn out and a new year copy is created, but again the year has to be engraved "manually", and here it can happen, that the numbers vary from the first year die! You now can understand, why we find that kind of variants quite often?
I had a look a my 5 øre 1951, and at first glance it does actually appear to be the slanted variety. It's hard to tell without having the other one to compare though, and the light in my magnifying glass doesn't work at the moment, so I couldn't get a closer look. I'll see if I can get a decent photo of it.
