5 pence error coin 2011

[jackiej 0]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

[Peckris 579]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

[Cerbera100 0]

I completely agree with Peck - though must add... thats some good pic skills for a newbie! Normally they are taken from about 2miles away and horribly blurred!

[jackiej 0]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

Hi Thank you for you reply. i must agree with you. yes it looks like royal mints standards have droped. the other 2 coins are different, one is die filled. and the 3rd coin the word penny is just a mess. I thought die cracks ect were classed as errors. now im confused. jackie

[Peckris 579]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

Hi Thank you for you reply. i must agree with you. yes it looks like royal mints standards have droped. the other 2 coins are different, one is die filled. and the 3rd coin the word penny is just a mess. I thought die cracks ect were classed as errors. now im confused. jackie

There's more than one way of looking at everything! To some they would be classed as errors, but among the collecting community they would be regarded more as deterioration, or degradation; dies wear, or crud gets onto a die or a blank, or dies crack.

To collectors, an error is usually regarded as something that is the result of human error not simply a machine. For example, blundered dates, or an overdate / overpunched letter, spelling mistake, design flaw - that kind of thing.

[jackiej 0]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

Hi Thank you for you reply. i must agree with you. yes it looks like royal mints standards have droped. the other 2 coins are different, one is die filled. and the 3rd coin the word penny is just a mess. I thought die cracks ect were classed as errors. now im confused. jackie

There's more than one way of looking at everything! To some they would be classed as errors, but among the collecting community they would be regarded more as deterioration, or degradation; dies wear, or crud gets onto a die or a blank, or dies crack.

To collectors, an error is usually regarded as something that is the result of human error not simply a machine. For example, blundered dates, or an overdate / overpunched letter, spelling mistake, design flaw - that kind of thing.

Thank you peckris for explaining it to me. im new to coins and learning. i was given a few old coins a while ago im only just starting to look at them. i have a few wheat cents and noticed the word liberty was all messy. this is when i started looking at error coins. since then found my self inspecting every coin on my purse lol. There is one coin i cant identifie i will post it on the forun to get some help. jackie

[Danz 9]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

Hi Thank you for you reply. i must agree with you. yes it looks like royal mints standards have droped. the other 2 coins are different, one is die filled. and the 3rd coin the word penny is just a mess. I thought die cracks ect were classed as errors. now im confused. jackie

There's more than one way of looking at everything! To some they would be classed as errors, but among the collecting community they would be regarded more as deterioration, or degradation; dies wear, or crud gets onto a die or a blank, or dies crack.

To collectors, an error is usually regarded as something that is the result of human error not simply a machine. For example, blundered dates, or an overdate / overpunched letter, spelling mistake, design flaw - that kind of thing.

Thank you peckris for explaining it to me. im new to coins and learning. i was given a few old coins a while ago im only just starting to look at them. i have a few wheat cents and noticed the word liberty was all messy. this is when i started looking at error coins. since then found my self inspecting every coin on my purse lol. There is one coin i cant identifie i will post it on the forun to get some help. jackie

Hi. I collect error coins like this aswell as the "normal" coins. In 20,30,70 years time they might be recorded as errors and if looked after now will be good examples in years to come.

[Peckris 579]

Hi. I collect error coins like this aswell as the "normal" coins. In 20,30,70 years time they might be recorded as errors and if looked after now will be good examples in years to come.

It's just possible - but do remember that the sought-after 1946 mint flaw penny was an isolated example in an era where such things were simply not the norm. There are just so many slack products coming from the Mint now that I find it difficult to imagine they will ever be seriously catalogued. I'm willing to be proved wrong though.

Edited January 24, 2012 by Peckris

[jackiej 0]

Hi. I collect error coins like this aswell as the "normal" coins. In 20,30,70 years time they might be recorded as errors and if looked after now will be good examples in years to come.

It's just possible - but do remember that the sought-after 1946 mint flaw penny was an isolated example in an era where such things were simply not the norm. There are just so many slack products coming from the Mint now that I find it difficult to imagine they will ever be seriously catalogued. I'm willing to be proved wrong though.

Think you could be wright. i only had 6 of these 2011 5 pees. i found errors on 3. they might only be small errors. but there nice examples. as soon as my fella came home i made him hand all his change over. {wats mine is mine. wats his is mine. lol} and yes i found another error.. like i say there must be thousands with errors. .

[jackiej 0]

Hi everybody, im new to the forum. has anybody found any of the 2011 5 pences with errors. i found these 3 in my change. there must be thousands with errors. Any one seen them. jackie

There nice examples. Why does it take royal mint so long to recognise errors ?.

Welcome to the forums Jackie

That's not really an error, more an example of how lax the Mint have become in standards. It's probably a die crack or something like that, and the 5p is so small that probably the inspectors failed to notice such a tiny phenomenon until a large number had been minted. If you found 3 it's unlikely to have any rarity.

Thanks for bringing it to our attention though.

Hi Thank you for you reply. i must agree with you. yes it looks like royal mints standards have droped. the other 2 coins are different, one is die filled. and the 3rd coin the word penny is just a mess. I thought die cracks ect were classed as errors. now im confused. jackie

There's more than one way of looking at everything! To some they would be classed as errors, but among the collecting community they would be regarded more as deterioration, or degradation; dies wear, or crud gets onto a die or a blank, or dies crack.

To collectors, an error is usually regarded as something that is the result of human error not simply a machine. For example, blundered dates, or an overdate / overpunched letter, spelling mistake, design flaw - that kind of thing.

Thank you peckris for explaining it to me. im new to coins and learning. i was given a few old coins a while ago im only just starting to look at them. i have a few wheat cents and noticed the word liberty was all messy. this is when i started looking at error coins. since then found my self inspecting every coin on my purse lol. There is one coin i cant identifie i will post it on the forun to get some help. jackie

Hi. I collect error coins like this aswell as the "normal" coins. In 20,30,70 years time they might be recorded as errors and if looked after now will be good examples in years to come.

[just.me 23]

Here is a 2009 20p with extra metal flaws, or maybe Her Maj just couldn't be bothered wiping her nose or bursting the pluke for this portrait??

[jackiej 0]

Here is a 2009 20p with extra metal flaws, or maybe Her Maj just couldn't be bothered wiping her nose or bursting the pluke for this portrait??

Nice one. looks like shes got a big wart on her cheek as well. bet she doesent know about this special portrait of her. lol. dont think she would be amused

[headsortails 8]

Here is a 2009 20p with extra metal flaws, or maybe Her Maj just couldn't be bothered wiping her nose or bursting the pluke for this portrait??

Nice one. looks like shes got a big wart on her cheek as well. bet she doesent know about this special portrait of her. lol. dont think she would be amused

Ive come across A few coins that seem to have little bumps in them,has any body came across any of these?

[Colin G. 147]

Here is a 2009 20p with extra metal flaws, or maybe Her Maj just couldn't be bothered wiping her nose or bursting the pluke for this portrait??

Nice one. looks like shes got a big wart on her cheek as well. bet she doesent know about this special portrait of her. lol. dont think she would be amused

Ive come across A few coins that seem to have little bumps in them,has any body came across any of these?

I would guess that this may be a result of the coins being steel cored with plating, and therefore an impurity may be commencing reaction/corrosion beneath the plating...not sure but it would seem a plausible explanation. I think 2008 2p's and 2010 onwards 5p's were plated steel