brass three pence

[coinman18 0]

Hi all, Right i have found this brass three pence in a load of coins i had today. on the heads side everything is normal on the reverse side there is nothing there, theres like a lip all around that goes in the coin. iv tryed uploading a pic but will not work for some reason, ill try again tomorrow. can anyone tell me anything about it from what i have described.

[Peckris 579]

Hi all, Right i have found this brass three pence in a load of coins i had today. on the heads side everything is normal on the reverse side there is nothing there, theres like a lip all around that goes in the coin. iv tryed uploading a pic but will not work for some reason, ill try again tomorrow. can anyone tell me anything about it from what i have described.

It COULD be a misstrike, or else it's been machined after it left the Mint. We'd need to see a picture - the maximum size per post is 150k, you may need to compress or reduce the size to get it to post. Failing that you could upload to Flickr or Photobucket and link to it here.

[coinman18 0]

Heres a pic if its works,

[coinman18 0]

pic of back,

[coinman18 0]

[Red Riley 2]

It's been put on a lathe which has made the reverse look like an LP record.

[TomGoodheart 403]

Yeah, it's been machined out after it was put into circulation. People used to (and still do perhaps) do that to two coins, leaving a reverse and obverse; one also lathed to a smaller diameter so they fitted together to form a small box. I inherited the face side of a penny someone has done this to and believe the 'bottom' went missing sometime. Maybe yours was like that once?

A curiosity but not valuble at all I'm afraid.

[Generic Lad 25]

The coin also might have been modified to allow the obverse of another threepence to fit in there and then they would glue it together to make a coin that was heads on both sides.

[coinman18 0]

Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again.

[Peckris 579]

Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again.

Why not keep it as a curio? I used to keep all kinds of things like that when I was poring over bags of coins from the banks before decimalisation!

[Generic Lad 25]

Thanks all for your feedback, I'll throw it away as it's no use to me, now I know what's happend to it. Thanks again.

Why not keep it as a curio? I used to keep all kinds of things like that when I was poring over bags of coins from the banks before decimalisation!

I agree, after all, it didn't cost you anything! While it certainly isn't going to be worth a ton, it is still worth hanging onto.