found some world coin errors!

Hi everyone! Recently I took part in a dealer liquidation auction, where I bought a 4# sack of world coins. Here are the errors I've found so far. First, I'm stumped by the 1 cent 1948 Netherlands coin. It does not match the coin in the book at all... Is this a variety?

 

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Next I found a really nice, and nicely located reverse die clash on a Spain 5 Pesetas 1957(62)

 

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Then I came across a cool retained lamination on this Thailand BE2493 (1950) 50 Satang (1/2 Baht). The obverse is weakly struck... maybe a defective planchet?

 

another...

Here is a DDR 1992 1 Franc from France. There is also a listed variety for this year where the Rev. is that of a medal... nothing listed in the way of a DDR though.

 

oh yeah...

Here is a 1985 50 Pesos from Mexico with a big ol' clipped edge. Pretty cool on such a thick coin.

 

and last..... so far....

Here is a coin from Japan with a minor clipped edge. Wierd on an aluminum coin. Haven't looked this one up yet but I soon will. Now that you've seen them, what do you think? What might they be worth? Thanks for looking!

 

Your Netherlands piece IS KM 175. Are you using the 37th edition? (2010)? The picture in the book is actually a piece of play money. They had the correct picture (your coin) in the 32nd edition. I'm not home at the moment so I don't know when they erred and replaced the real coin with the play money piece.

 

Yes. I have the 2010 book. Why in the WORLD would such a highly acclaimed reference not even mention that it wasn't the ACTUAL coin? Wow. That's kinda funny! Thank you Conder for clearing that up!
BTW I got 2 nice Conder tokens $25 for the pair..... one was a rarer variety.... I'll post pics tonight in the world coins section... now lets see if I can dig up the paper I wrote their info on.....
Edit: tokens are in thread: Show us your Conder Tokens

 

on this coin what you are thinking is a clip looks to be some kind of pmd. it looks as if something has been pushed into the outer edge of the rim of it , notice how this pushed the metal up around this area. if this had been a clip the bent and raised area would have been smooth.

 

This has been nagging at me since I posted the pics... I think you may be right on that one... Still I wonder: why isn't there a corresponding ding or at least a flattened area on the opposite side? Especially since it's aluminum, shouldn't there be? But you are right... the rim doesn't fade away as it nears the area as it does on real clipped edges. Good eye.

 

Your coin looks pretty much like mine in that era. Even in the older books it was a artist depiction. I have thought about offering to upload a few thousand pics to them if they would use them. I find this all the time where they don't have a real pic. More so on the ON-Line version of the book. There they are missing many of the individual years, where they may have 1 year out of 30.

I have a number of Netherlands coins and paper money and stamps from the 40's or just before and after.

 

I talked to the editor about the 48 1 cent. He made some notes about it so hopefully it will get corrected.

 

wow... thanks! For more on a very related topic, please see thread http://www.cointalk.com/t195826/ I sure wish all the charts were in the front of the book again. I miss the diameter chart, the list of which countries use francs, pesos, etc. and so mush more that I found indespensable, and didn't realize was no longer included when I got rid of my '98 edition in anticipation of my soon-to-arrive 2010 edition. Very disappointing...

 

here's one

Peru 1967 5 centavos 2.85 grams brass 17mm

This must have been struck with a pair of terminal dies as there is there is a nice CUD just before 12o'clock on the obverse and die cracks throughout both sides. To top it off, the reverse is rotated about 20 degrees

 

here are a couple more

Here are two from Soviet Russia.

the 1982 20 Kopek (3.3grams copper/nickel/zinc 22mm)

shows a cool lamination on the reverse


while the 1990 2 Kopek (2grams brass 18mm)
has about a 10 degree rotated die reverse

 

faulty planchet?

I don't know what this is, but it shouldn't be there. For now I'm calling it a faulty planchet. Any Ideas?

India 1964(c) 2 Paise 2.98grams copper/nickel
the reverse has sort of a V shaped bulge just over the base of 2

 

Krause error or mint error?

Here is a 2000 10 centavos from Ecuador. 2.24grams steel 17.9mm

Krause says it should have a plain edge. This one is reeded. who erred?

 

Any input on the above India raised mark and Ecuador reeded-but-listed-as-plain-edge coins?

 

Error on krause. My source says reeded edge.

 

King George-enstien!

Looks like a conveniently located die chip resulted in extra metal still attatched in the form of a retained lamination. It weighs slightly over what Krause says it should


Anyone have an opinion on that India 1962 2 Paise piece yet???