I have this coin which i dont know how to identify and i am hoping that users may help explain what it is. I have read as much information on error coins as i can find but have not identified which type of error or value. The coin is a 1999 british penny which appears to be imprinted on the top of the queens head with a picture. Unsure of whether it is a reprint or something different on the coin, on the reverse of the coin there is a almost circuler imprint of where the coin was double struck on the other side, which i cant seem to capture in the photo. Please help any information would be useful
After looking at the coin, it was pressed the second time with a really hot tool which left an impression on the reverse of the coin and the detail on the front of the coin looks quite detailed. Unsure how you would go about doing this to a coin once it has left the mint?
So do you know if that could have been done at the mint? Everything you read about the mint allows you to believe that they dont actually make errors like this any more. But i'm still unsure of how else it could be done.
Well, if it is a counterstamp, it's not an error, and it was not done by the mint. It was done by an indivigual for reasons I wouldn't know. It looks like a counterstamp from what I have learned about them, and the description you gave tends to back up my theory. If my theory is correct, it's an alteration to the coin.
Thank you for your help and all thoughts ar greatly appreciated. Would a counter stamp leave an impression on the reverse of the coin as well? As there is an impression on the back of the coin. Also the 'embossed' bit of the coin is raised and not depressed, does this fit in with the counter stamp?
That I don't know, but from what I have seen on the internet, I would say yes. I'm still too new at this to give you a better answer. Knowing how my week has been going so far, someone will probably come along and tell you the exact answer to every question, and I'll probably be half right at best, I would advise you not to take anything I have posted in this thread as 100% truth, as I am basing it on things I have read myself. I hope I was able to help a little bit, though!
I can't really see anything on the reverse of the coin, but it's common for counterstamps to leave a flatter area on the opposite side of the coin from where they were applied, since the force required to make the mark can often be enough to alter the back of the coin. If what you are seeing is a raised or flatter area in the same shape of this mark, then that's all it is.
