The photos are quite grainy, but these look like fragments of number punches... possibly 2s and 9s?
The one on the right is a billon 1/2 Stuber from East Friesland from 1717, KM#156. I would need better photos for the one on the left.
Advertising, store / equipment tickets, credit tokens, or testing punches are the main culprits.
First two are Dutch East Indies 2-1/2 Cents (1913-14), KM#308.2, 316. Next 2 are 1924 and 29D German (Weimar) Pfennigs, KM#37. The next is a...
@mikenoodle - I did specify not USA, but rather Sovereigns in my initial reply. OP simply asked if it ever happens that counterfeits are in fact...
@mikenoodle - I have handled quite a few of the Middle East counterfeits (particularly they turned up in Montreal in quantity), and almost all...
A Rathskeller is a tavern in a basement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratskeller G H Frieske appears to have been the proprietor of such a...
Not USA, but you frequently encounter counterfeit British Sovereigns that are gold, but are not of correct purity. They particularly came out of...
@Collecting Nut - age has nothing to do with anything in this case... fakes of these have been coming out of China since the 80s at least. This...
This doesn't look right to me, but I am more than willing to be proven wrong.
Looks like die erosion to me - the RM has been working its dies like a dog since ca 2016, and it shows on many pieces, especially the 10ps and £s.
Wow! Absolutely agreed with Ayutthia and Angkor - thank you @alurid and @jtlartgallery for your replies!
I have gone down the Siam (Thailand), Burma, and Brunei routes in past, and although I sometimes get the vague sensation of getting close, I have...
Hi All! I have had this lotus-shaped lead token or coin for years, and although it has always intrigued me / looked oddly familiar, it has been...
The way I got into it was that my mum was the manager of the advertising account for Air Canada in the 1980s-90s. One of the promos that her (she...
ENTRY POST / Cat. B - all the best!
Strictly speaking, neither are errors - the Brazilian coin displays die deterioration doubling, and the Belgian coin is an overdate. Both are...
looks to me to be damage, as if caused by a cheap eraser.
The 1896G is a lower mintage date in the series - I will have to disagree with the above, and say that 200k can be a low mintage date for some of...
From what I understand (and I am more than willing to be corrected should someone know otherwise), these were struck at Rome using a single set of...
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