Royal MintTrial Die 1957 25mm diameter in Nickel? Obverse: Britannia seated on a stool, striking a coin, Reverse: ROYAL MINT TRIAL DIE and the date 1957 within a 6-pointed star, Plain edge, 5.32 grammes, EF
Royal Mint Trialundated Uruguay Obverse: A modified Sierra Leone obverse Five Centesimos with Z in centre of 5 on reverse, 4.89 grammes, Plain edge, believed to be struck in steel, UNC and lustrous with some minor hairlines
Mint Error - Mis Strike DecimalTen Pence 1970 ESC 3203, Davies 2808 dies 4B an off-centre strike on a mis-shapen flan of 29.5mm diameter, with a straight cut across the top of the flan, plain edge, 10.68 grammes, UNC/AU and lustrous
Mint Error - Mis-StrikeDecimal Five Pence 1979 struck around 5-10% off centre with around 2mm blank flan from 7 to 12 o'clock, Plain edge, A/UNC, comes with a letter of authenticity signed by G.P.Dyer 27/8/1980
Mint Error - Mis-Strike a blank flan in gold in an NGC holder labelled '(1974-1979) G.Britain Gold Conservation Series Planchet (33.3 g - 33.3mm diameter) MINT ERROR, plain edge, the planchet for the popular Conservation series from the 1970s, issued for many different, mostly Commonwealth countries
Mint Error - Mis-StrikeShilling 1948 English ESC 1474, Bull 4183 struck off-centre with about 1mm blank flan from 5 to 10 o'clock, causing a raised lip from 2 to 8 o'clock on the reverse, plain edge UNC with a small spot on the bust, all George VI mis-strikes very scarce
Mint Error - Mis-StrikeDecimalOne Pound Obverse: Rank-Broadley portrait of the Queen, Reverse: Royal Arms with supporters, date worn (1993) struck on a incorrect 21mm diameter nickel coated steel thin flan, 4.1 grammes, plain edge, legends worn appears NVG but probably around 'as made', a highly unusual error
FantasyDouble Florins INA Retro Patterns (8) 1893 in silver, 1893 in golden alloy, 1902 in golden alloy, 1910 George V in golden alloy, 1937 Edward VIII in copper, Obverse: Golder head to left, 1937 Edward VIII in golden alloy, Obverse: Golder head to left, 1937 George VI in golden alloy, 1953 in silver, all with plain edges and with the reverse design similar in style to the 1887-1890 currency Double Florin issue, UNC the 1953 coin with some tone spots
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes Decimal Coinage (5) Twenty Pence 2005 an off-metal strike weighing 3.31 grammes EF, Ten Pences (2) 1997 and 2014 both struck off-centre, the first with a raised lip from 6 o'clock to 11 o'clock, Plain edge NEF, 2014 EF the edge with only around 25% width milled, the remainder plain, EF, Five Pence 2000 struck on a thin flan of 1.61 grammes Fine and weakly struck, One Penny 1999 has missed the copper plating process, 3.34 grammes EF
DecimalOne Pound edge lettering trials (2) both blanks with lettered edges, the first with DECUS ET TUTAMEN on a plain edge, 6.85 grammes, the second with DECUS ET TUTAMEN ANNO REGNI XXXI in italic font with a Cross Crosslet privy mark after TUTAMEN, 7.72 grammes both VF, along with a resin impression 65mm diameter of possibly a proposed design and two further paper impressions of the same design, , these accompanied by two booklets by the Royal Mint, the first entitled 'The United Kingdom Coinage' July 1987, the second entitled 'Proposals for a £1 coin and a 20p Coin' January 1981, these both in good condition
Mint Error - Mis-Strike India Rupee 1903 Bombay Mint, B incuse KM#508 struck off-centre the reverse with a raised lip between 9 o'clock and 1 o'clock, with a plain edge, GEF and lustrous with a thin scratch on the obverse
10 Units Special Trial Design , struck in aluminium or white metal, Obverse: SPECIAL TRIAL DESIGN around 10, UNITS below, Reverse: similar but with a C inside the loop of the 0, Plain edge, 4.31 grammes, GVF, we note a similar example was sold in the J.Tansley Collection DNW September 2005 (Lot 479, hammer price £50) where it was stated to be the only example extant outside of the Royal Mint, this example of a slightly different weight so clearly a third example, Extremely Rare
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes Halfcrowns (3) 1961 the edge only partially milled with a plain raised approximately 1mm band all the way around the milling, also the centre of the shield not struck up Fine, 1964 struck off-centre with around 1.5mm raised lip on the reverse, also with a plain edge A/UNC, 1965 struck from blocked or worn dies with part of the obverse legend not struck up NEF
Trial Pieces (2), Birmingham Mint, 26mm diameter in cupro-nickel, undated Reverse: Manufacturers of Non-Ferrous Alloys, in centre: 'In Sheets Strip Wire Blanks Tubes Stampings, Etc. and Coinage' in 7 lines, Plain Edge, A/UNC with a small toning spot on the reverse, Royal Mint 1957 Britannia Moneta/6-point star 25mm diameter with scalloped edge, About EF with the appearance of a 'hand-cut' edge
FantasyCrowns INA Patina Series 1918 End of World War I a series of 8 pieces all in different metals:- .925 Silver, Aluminium, Golden Alloy, Copper, Piedfort Copper, Polished Steel, Gold coated copper and Nickel Silver. Plain edge. Only 100 of each made, Lustrous UNC
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes (30) 2 Euros blank flans (16) 2 EURO and stars on the edge (9), 2 and stars on the edge (7), 1 Euro blank flans with plain edges (14) in mixed grades
Mint Error - Mis-Strikes Decimal Five Pences (3) 2000 struck off-centre with around 1.75mm blank flan and a raised lip and plain edge, weighs 3.19 grammes GEF, 2001 on a thin flan weighing just 2.26 grammes very weakly struck with a worn edge, About Fine with very little milling visible, 2001 struck off-centre with around 1mm blank flan, weight 3.22 grammes, plain edge VF
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