fishsticks

I gratefully accept - thanks Stuart for you generous offer! I presume that I can receive PMs with few posts? If so just PM me your address and I'll pop the coin in the post.

Hi, I recently received in change a 10p coin with some unusual features. I asked about it on another forum but then discovered predecimal.com and thought it would make sense to ask on a UK-specific forum. I don't know much about coins and would be grateful for any information about this one. Obviously I'd love it if this was an extremely rare and valauble error, but I doubt it and am really just more interested to know a little about what happened to the coin. It looks like ther was a little extra metal in the die when it was struck, but I'm just guessing. I received it in change a while ago and I think the year is 2014 - hard to tell because the final digits of the year haven't impressed properly. I think I can see the beginnings of a "4". There is a small depression where the digits should be, which is directly opposite a large blob of extra metal (slightly raised) on the reverse of the coin, below the lions. Thanks!

If you are serious then I am happy to send it to you on the condition that you put a fiver into a charity box when you get it. As a non-collector I don't really have any use for it and would prefer to give it to someone who is interested rather than just put it back into circulation.

Thanks Dan - interesting to know. I have never seen this before, but looking online I can see other similar examples. One (in a 2012 coin) is so incredibly close that I gues the fie must have broken in exactly the same place!