I have never noticed this on a coin before. This 2001 20 pence has two fields, outer and inner. The inner is incused into the planchet, leaving a raised outer field. Notice the lower half of 20 is incused in the outer field, follow the 20 onto the inner field and it transitions to raised relief.
Funny how you look at some thing for a hundred times and not see Some thing so Obvious. Thank you for Bringing this to every one.
Before I moved to Spain 16 years ago, I handled those just about every day from decimalisation, Never noticed that. Thanks
I see one small error in your cross-section: I think bottom of the denomination numeral, "20" should appear like this (below), since the bottom of the numeral is also in relief. Right?
I made a mistake: the lower half of the "20" is INCUSE, so forget my previous comment. It might look like this?:
No NO NO , you did catch something. When I checked out what ya said, I noticed I should have extended the yellow line eastward to go under the upper 20 device. My original showed the upper 20 incused into the inner field.thnx....martha
Uh in response to #5 above , I would say no. I think I had that portion correct if that is what you were referring to...martha
Quite a coin to show if some one needs a quick definition of those terms. Just one pic shows examples of each as close as your gonna get them.
I would say no again. Look at the "island " in the lower 0. Its top is flush with the outer field. It couldn't reach that high in your set up. I' think we both got it wrong in #7
Hey, I looked again at my original illustration and we both missed one again. My legend shows black to be the date device. DDUUHH !!! That is the denomination device. You missed a good shot there !
