SionGilbey

If it says 1931 and is a decimal coin then yes, it is an error, and I have never seen one before. Are you sure the 3 is not an 8? Could you please upload a picture?

I'd pay around £40-60 for the lot from a dealer.

The B in DIBEH?E looks a lot like an E.

Depends what kind of coins you collect - for World Coins (including British ones) I use the Krause Catalogues, but if you are British only there are very good Spink ones (available online and in bookshops such as Waterstones)

http://www.pcgs.com/articles/article_view.chtml?artid=4779&universeid=313

Agreed! They get bog standard coins in bulk, check if their are any ones over the value of 10p, chuck on a layer of colourful enamel and sell them to the public for £200.

It's probably just familiar. http://www.google.co.uk/images?q=error+20p See first result...

Can't find it...

Personally, if I was wealthy enough not to need spare money I would sell them for £50 each, make 7 and a half thousand and give it to charities or youth organizations or something on one of those great big cheques.

I'd still buy one if it was going for around £30, even though I only have real interest in non-error coins of the 18th, 19th and 20th century. The London Mint will buy them for £100 a piece but they will just cover them with enamel and sell them for much much more.

It certainly shouts 'Italian' but I'm going 16th century. OK, here's my punt - Venetian, 1560. Keep us informed Huss, I'll be fascinated to learn just what it is. Me too, I actually meant 16 and tried to edit it but it didn't let me.

If it's helpful, the mintage was 430,000.

My guess is 13th century Italian... but I'm no expert...

Just checked on an 1882 with a H and it is exactly where I think I can see the H on yours.

I think I can see the H as well, that area is quite faded as you can see the bottoms of the numbers are also faded.

Happy New Year to everyone!

Hello all! For a while I've browsed across the forum and site for information and a read but only recently I've made an account and started posting. I come from sunny Wales and spend too many evenings collecting, storing and entering into my database a multitude of world coins (currently I have one thousand one hundred and forty-six) Last year I acquired a metal detector with visions of digging up giant hordes of coins from the ground of the 700 odd year old town in which I reside but alas after days of detecting I found 2 rusty 2ps and a dozen beer cans. I've searched for coins in antiques markets in shops in Nice, Monaco, Villefranche, Italy and exotic Swansea and have built up my collection for around 6 years (a complete newbie to some of you with half a century collecting under your belts!). Sorry about waffling on and I hope to speak to you all soon!

Try WHSmiths, most of the change you get there (at least in my local) is fresh from the tube.

All this talk of being mugged and scammed and hiding from the authorities sounds more like drug dealing than coin dealing lol

*Checks the thread name* Oh. lol.

It's in the Krause catalogue as 60 USD, which is £38.48 with mintmark A and in VF condition, so you paid about right for it.

Indeed! The bigger problem that I think that the Royal Mint will face with the new Nickel Plated Steel 5p and 10p coins is getting the plating process right. If they do not, it will not be good for them at all. As for the Vending Machine Industry, the answer is simple. Do not allow the Vending Machines to accept 5p or 10p Coins. I know that may sound very blasé, but to me it makes a lot more sense than having to spend a fortune to create new machines that can deal with these new coins and having software written for existing machines to be able to use them. Instead just have the Software updated in existing machines to not allow 5p or 10p coins. I quite agree! 5 and 10ps are basically useless in the vending machines anyway - they're worthless these days.

Checking my spare change can I found a few 2010 1ps (oddly enough, over half of them had cuds on!) a Gibraltar 20p and a Guernsey 20p and 1981 pound coin AND a 70s half penny... I could start another collection with the stuff I find in there!

Are you currently selling yours? If no, someone has stolen your pictures and are passing them off as their own!

Just checked my 5p's and found a 2010 with one side rotated about 30 to 45 degrees. When I hold the coin to the mirror with the reverse "five pence" level, the Queen's head is tilted almost 30 to 45 degrees to the left. It's very noticeable, esp if you hold a normal 5p next to it. Would that be an error? What would cause this? I don't have a camera to show it. Matbe try with my phone later. Die rotation usually causes that sort of error. I don't know much about mint errors because it's never been that thing and I'm comparatively inexperienced with just 5 to 6 years of collecting - but I've seen a few coins where the die has been rotated (I don't quite know how they manage to do it but they can't exactly check every single one, so some errors get through).