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Depending on the size it could be a sovereign or a half sovereign.

However, the soft reverse details suggests that this may be a copy. (There were full weight copies in gold made in the Middle East for use in the bullion market there until the Royal Mint started striking sovereigns again in 1957)

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Unfortunately this is not a mint error.

It's a regular loonie, where sometime after leaving the mint, someone had machined it. (i.e. mechanically ground off a portion of the coin)

Modern counterfeit. Style and metal are incorrect.

The first one is a Roman piece c. 320 AD or so, depicting someone from the Constantinian dynasty and a "campgate"

If you have a closer direct picture of the area below the campgate, I can probably try to identify the mint.

You said it. Epic! on great work!

Very intriguing! on the completion

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It looks okay from a first glance.

The piece appears to be a circulation strike.

The one on the left is a bracteate, whether genuine or not I cannot say. Here is a similar one http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&priref=111627&_function_=xslt&_limit_=50#1

 

 

The link to the bracteate collection in the Fitzwilliam http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguesummary.html?_searchstring_=(object_name=%27Bracteate%27%20and%20administration_name=%27Coins%20and%20Medals%27)&_limit_=50&_function_=xslt&_resultstylesheet_=imagecs

for you to search.

I totally forgot about bracteate.

Keep it up!

The item on the left appears to be a seal rather than a coin.

Dragon? And I thought it was a griffin.

I was hoping there was an on-line list of each country and where its coinage is minted. Lots of research must be done. It seems that countries don't advertise that their coinage is minted elsewhere. Only coin collectors would really care. It's like most iPhone owners think their phones are made in the USA as Apple is a USA company but is really manufactured in China. Civil aircraft are manufactured by Boeing near Seattle or in Europe by Airbus; countries like Russia and China fly no aircraft manufactured in their countries; even the designs and logos are painted elswehere.

That would be an interesting undertaking as indeed a lot of information is not publicly available, and some countries (say the Dominican Republic) have had coins struck all over the place.

Happy birthday!

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Very nice. My last trip to the grocery netted me a trio of Arches quarters in my change. Still happy nonetheless to add a new parks quarter to my collection.

You're welcome!

scarcer = more scarce (akin to rarer/rare, but of a lesser degree)

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Are you able to provide direct links to the pictures (or hotlink them) perhaps? It seems that the photobucket site has lots of third party scripts running on it.

The Straits cent would grade between "About Good" and "Good", which would be several grades below "Very Fine".

The grading system goes:

Poor

Fair

About Good

Good

Very Good

Fine

Very Fine

Extremely Fine

About Uncirculated

Uncirculated

(Proofs are specially made collector versions with special dies and usually stronger strikes)

From a quick glance it appears to be Roman early 4th century, perhaps Licinius I or II. I'll come back to this later if someone else hasn't chimed in.

I have a very complicated case, maybe you could help me to find answers.

 

I have a commemorative silver 5 Euro coin issued this year in original round plastic capsule. Coin was issued by national bank in Proof (!) quality and issue limit was 10 000 coins.

National bank informed collectors that design of this coin will contain 3 national flags that will be in colours. There are no other designs- just this one with 3 flags in colours.

 

Coin I bought from national bank was with error in its design- 2/3 of colours in 3rd flag were missing (colour is missing on 22.2% of surface where it should have been)...

 

It is 100% sure that there are no pieces of fell-off colour in the round plastic capsule and this capsule is for 100% in the same condition national bank sold it to me. Nobody has ever opened or made any changes to it or coin!

At the place, where should be colours of 3rd flag, there is nothing: no dots of colour, no scratches, no dust, no traces of chemicals (cleaners or something), nothing. Just silver.

I think this error was made in mint and somehow passed all quality tests for coin to be called Proof (!) in mint and national bank and was sold to collector- me. (Sometime people don't see simple things that are in front of their eyes...)

 

I informed national bank about this situation and they gave me an answer that this is an error and there should not be coins with 2/3 of colours in 3rd flag missing. National bank also confirmed that this is the only case known.

 

Due to the fact that none of the collectors I know have ever seen or heard anything about this type of error, I started to search on internet. I wasn't able to find any information about this kind of errors...

 

I hope you can give me some ideas about my case. I wanted to understand:

 

1) Is this kind of error (not fully coloured elements in Proof (!) coins) considered to be rare between Proof (!) dollars, euros, pounds, rubles etc.?

2) Is this kind of error collectable?

3) Is this kind of error considered to be more valuable than typical errors (broadstrikes, off-centers, double strikes in collars, off-metals etc.)?

4) Are there known worldwide examples between Proof (!) dollars, euros, pounds, rubles etc. with this kind of mint error? (for example- coin with American flag missing blue colour; coin with colibri bird with wings left silver white etc.)

 

All this situation is something completely new for me. I have never ever before read so many articles about coin errors than during last 7 days.

 

 

Thank you very much for your time and answers!

Have a good day!

1. Error coins of NCLT are generally scarcer than error coins on regular coinage since they are more carefully inspected, though, as with anything, human error can always result in an error getting out.

2. Yes, but see also #4 below.

3. No answer, since even the examples you gave all vary considerably.

4. Coloured coins are relatively new, and almost all are NCLT issues, so errors on them would be few, only because the number of coloured coins relative to non-colored coins is low.

That being said, the main issue with a colored coin missing one or more parts of the color is that it would be somewhat difficult to prove that it came without colouring (rather than being removed) and so would likely only be accepted (at least in North America) if a certification company guaranteed it.

Top left: 1872? Straits Settlements 1 Cent

Top centre: 1854K France 5 Centimes

Top right: 1877 Spain 5 Centimos

Centre left: Indian temple token

Centre centre: appears to be Spanish early 1800s.

Centre right: Indian temple token

Bottom row: Indian "dump" type coins. Outside of my area of expertise.

That's a neat curve-around of the number on the right side :-)