Malaysia 2010 Flower 50 sen coin with inverted V on the lettering edges

I have a piece of the Malaysia 2010 Flower 50 sen coin with inverted V on the lettering edges.There is an inverted V just beside the letter R at the last letter of the characters on the lettering edges there.I have never seen anything like this before as a collector to be honest and it must be a new discovery.

It looks interesting to me and I have been keeping it into my collection for several years.I need the experts to help me to identify it if this error is a common or rare on other piece,your help is always apprieiciate as usual by me.Please refer to the scans above and let me know what you think.Thank you

 

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I think it is an A not an inverted V.

 

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Sound funny.I wonder how would you look at the letter A there and it is clearly the letter A is without the straight line or crossbar to be an inverted V but the rest of the letter A are with crossbar in it,someone see the letter A is without crossbar and it happened because of the wear during the processing.The someone I mean is from the other forum there,hope you understand.Thank you

 

The little crossbar you are talking about could have been struck through grease, thus not allowing it to show up. Also, the A without a crossbar is lined up with the rest of the letters, making it hard for me to think that a V was accidentally placed on it. Another thing I notice is on the last picture. On the coin it says, "NEGARA MALAYSIA". On the edge of the coin it appears to be putting the same saying "NEGARA MALAYSIA". Thus, due to the same quote on the coin, I believe it appears to be struck through grease in that particular area.

 

I understand of what you mean about the struck through grease and it is similary to the cease filled die on the surface and it is not accidently that put a letter V and placed on it.The letter A was strucked there during the processing period and I have to agree with you,another of my thought is failed to cut in the particular area there.Thank you

 

Your picture makes it hare to tell because of the glare spot on the edge right next to it. I would say it is probably not a grease strike through because I believe the letters are incuse on the edge of the coin. It IS possible the edge die could have had the crossbar chipped off the raised letter. Edge dies are normally made through hubbing in which case all the edge dies would be the same. So if it actually had an upside down V instead of an A, all or a very large percentage of the coins would have the "upside down V".

 

I need to let you know that it is the only coin with inverted V on lettering edge which is that I have ever discovered so far from among two thousand over similar pieces,the rest of the coins are normal there without any letter inverted on the lettering edge there and please give me more of your opinion please.Thank you

 

I think Conder is right. It looks incuse, thus the only way would have been for that particular part of the die to have broken off.