Little Dot on gold coin

Hi,

I have a 100 dollars gold coin with a little bright dot under the DO of the word DOllars. Is it a significant error or not?


It's a 50th Anniv, Newfoundland's Confederation with Canada 1999 100 dollars gold coin. Mintage is 10242 on wikipedia (Royal Canadian Mint numismatic coins (20th century)


I took a picture with flash. The dot is not so big as you see on the picture but you can see this brightness.

Thank's to comment this.

 

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Was this coin purchased directly from the Mint or did you aquire it in the "after market"?

 

Looks like some kind of clash mark or possibly die deterioration. Of course I've been wrong before.

 

Hi,

I bought it from a mint dealer. I will buy a microscope to see what is it exactly. It's very hard to see if it is over or under surface because the brightness of gold. Sometime it seem to be up and other time low according to the angle. I have a loop 8X. I don't think someone can do a little dot like that... it seem to be impossible but i'm not an expert.

Thanks.

 

I don't believe this is an error but rather a commemorative mint marking. This is not factual information, just a guess on my part.

 

Canadian dies are typically chrome plated and sometimes the plating chips resulting in raised "dots" on some coins.

 

Doesn't look like a big, big error. Does it?

 

Hi,

No it is not a big error... but i like this error.

Because it's a 1999 gold coin, i will call it : The 20th century Do-Dot coin :smile

Thanks.