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<p>[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 4306833, member: 40017"]To a degree, but I still think it is environmental damage on the OP coin - just hasn't been in the ground as long as the ones I posted. To me the pale areas on the OP coin look too pale to be bronze and suggest underlying white metal. (Bear in mind the bright shiny bronze coins we see get that way by going through an annealing process post-strike, which a 20p coin could never get into.)</p><p>Also, to get an off metal strike in that shape would require that a sheet of bronze had been fed into the 20p striking process, which would result in a whole batch of errors being produced, which in turn would have attracted attention. A penny blank getting into the 20p feed hopper would not do it as the shape and size would be wrong.</p><p>I would not lay out money on that being an off metal strike without an accurate weight check and an edge scratch test.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="PaddyB, post: 4306833, member: 40017"]To a degree, but I still think it is environmental damage on the OP coin - just hasn't been in the ground as long as the ones I posted. To me the pale areas on the OP coin look too pale to be bronze and suggest underlying white metal. (Bear in mind the bright shiny bronze coins we see get that way by going through an annealing process post-strike, which a 20p coin could never get into.) Also, to get an off metal strike in that shape would require that a sheet of bronze had been fed into the 20p striking process, which would result in a whole batch of errors being produced, which in turn would have attracted attention. A penny blank getting into the 20p feed hopper would not do it as the shape and size would be wrong. I would not lay out money on that being an off metal strike without an accurate weight check and an edge scratch test.[/QUOTE]
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