Is this titel right for this coin?



Thanks in advance

Jos from Belgium

I'm not sure what that is, but it doesn't really look like clashed dies.

Maybe....When I think of a clashed die, I think of the coin press operating without a planchet. Do that enough times and the dies get scored such that, when you do have a planchet, some elements of one side are scored into the other side dies and end up on the planchet - kind of makes my head hurt - check out the error guide that LD put up here - maybe he can say it a bit more coherently...

Anyways...I am assuming that you are referring to the area under the lion on the obverse...so I will make that red here...


Now let me invert the reverse and make it a little bit transparent like so...


Finally, let me move the inverted reverse onto the obverse and see how that part of the '5' lines up with the red area...


Hmmm pretty nice fit, so I say yep, the title is correct - it's a clashed die.....unless I am forgetting something, in which case I say, I don't know what that is either...

Good one! I saw that, but I was thinking medal rather than coin axis...

Great flip

Yeah, I should've added that the coin was in coin alignment. I tend to forget to say details like that.
Well, I have about 250 coins of that type, with the lion (5 and 10 centimes 1861-1901) and that one has the clearest traces of this specific error.

Most of them have traces of it.

A random example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Belgium-5-Centimes-190...1QQcmdZViewItem

There you can see the inverted C in between the paws of the lion.

Thanks for your replies!



Jos