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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;britannia40, post: 3184834, member: 74818&quot;]About a year and a half ago I stumbled onto a Doubled Die Obverse (DDO) 2010 Iron Age/Works British 2 pound coin. I could not find any other reported and searched TPG’s with no results. I accumulated 11 of these DDO’s as a few I found and a few came for sale (in the UK) after I obtained mine. The doubling is in the outer rim and also the three initials under the bust portrait and slightly at the portrait outline.</p><p><br /></p><p>(6 still ungraded)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821274[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]821275[/ATTACH]</p><p>I sent 3 to PCGS to get them listed and 1 to NGC. I asked about the discovery annotation as they had no others reported. Upon calling both they said that was mainly for US coins and up to the grader to assign the discovery label.</p><p><br /></p><p>(4 graded)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821276[/ATTACH]</p><p>An esteemed member here at the beginning of the year requested I send one of the coins to ICG as they would assigned a discovery label and grade the coin. I did that and they held the coin for some time as they wanted to report it to coinworld etc. They recently sent the coin back to me with the label.</p><p><br /></p><p>(ICG submission)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821268[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]821269[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]821277[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had prior contacted the British Royal mint and talked with their staff. The referred me to the Royal Mint Museum who handles their error coins. After providing them HD pictures of the coins they stated it appeared to be die chatter based on the photos.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821270[/ATTACH]</p><p>They further stated I could send in a coin for in hand review and would get a findings report in a few months. Die Chatter is what they refer to as machine doubling (MD).</p><p>I decided to send one coin to them as I had several and believed they would return it. I then sent the coin back with their own report and stood by their Die Chatter as you can see from the final report. (in error they put 50 pence instead of 2 pound)</p><p><br /></p><p>(the coin I sent to them)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821272[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]821273[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]821271[/ATTACH]</p><p>After talking to several British coin business’s and collectors they stated that errors were only recently becoming big across the pond and that the Royal Mint is terribly beat up concerning errors so it was very likely even based with hard evidence they would change their opinion.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway I figured I would share the results of the Royal Mint and ICG as&nbsp; I was asked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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