Puzzled by this one

Hello everyone,

Icelandic error coins are hard to find as all coins are rolled at the central bank of Iceland so many of them do not get to circulation.

The 50 Kronur is particularly hard to find with errors so anything is great to see.

This one I found with a grease filled die. What puzzled me is the amount of dings and scratches on the filled part but nothing on the obverse.



Siggi

 

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Could this "wear" have come from die pollishing?

 

Not sure, they minted 50.000 of this coin so tecnacly they could have used only one die. But the reverse die could have been older dies.

 

does it weigh less than normal or thinner than normal?

 

Same size and weight

 

I am going to venture a guess to what happened.

the coin was at the end of a roll. the roll got rubbed down A LOT the end took many many beatings causing the rub down and multiple dings, but leaving the other side virtually unscathed.

 

Actually at that time the central bank used bags and the london mint did not roll them.

But that was my frist guess as well

 

I agree with snaps. The reverse was protected, and the obverse wasn't. Another example of how this could happen would be it was sitting in the bottom of a box, possibly with other coins or objects on top. The box gets moved around, but the reverse is sliding on cardboard or something non abrasive, while the obverse is taking hits for the team.

 

set in a ring?

 

The "grease" was not just grease. There was a lot of other things like dirt, dust and METAL FILINGS trapped in the grease as well. When it was struck the die forced those pieces of metal into the surface of the coin creating all the "nicks".

 

Thanks conder that solver the puzzle