Elizabeth 6d 2overPoverP?

[Coinery 1,157]

OK, this is what I'm seeing on the Elizabeth 6d posted in Coin Aquisition by Azda!

So, IMHO, a mistaken 2 for P in Posvi (I've seen number 2 clearly in the legend of 2 other coins), corrected by P (double punched).

I could be wrong, as the vagarities are many, but I'd be calling it that if it were mine!

[Coinery 1,157]

Another example of 2 in legend.

[azda 979]

Is the 2 in your 2nd picture from The same date Stewie? Its an upside down 2 in the legend?

Edited November 11, 2014 by azda

[Coinery 1,157]

Is the 2 in your 2nd picture from The same date Stewie? Its an upside down 2 in the legend?

No, not the same date, but from a coin with a 2 in the date. My point being, that if a 2 punch is at hand, it sometimes gets used in error.

[azda 979]

But then surely the 2 would have to be in use for it to be in Hand or avaliable? If a twice punched P was used over a 2 then i'm assuming the first strike was to hide the error and the 2nd to make the P look like a P as your other Picture does'ntt look much like an E

Edited November 11, 2014 by azda

[Coinery 1,157]

But then surely the 2 would have to be in use for it to be in Hand or avaliable?

Your's does have a 2 in date (1592)!

[Coinery 1,157]

If a twice punched P was used over a 2 then i'm assuming the first strike was to hide the error and the 2nd to make the P look like a P

Maybe, or just an accidental double-strike of the P punch? Who knows he might've had the wobbles when he realised he'd just smacked a 2 in the legend?

As you say, though, there would probably be some sort of attempt to obliterate it, as I'm sure a double-bounced P wouldn't reap anything like the penalty a glaring error would?

[Coinery 1,157]

Is there anyone else out there seeing a 2 now I've highlighted it, or am I still alone on this? Which i don't mind, of course! ?

Edited November 11, 2014 by Coinery

[azda 979]

But then surely the 2 would have to be in use for it to be in Hand or avaliable?

Your's does have a 2 in date (1592)!

Lol yes i know but i was more curious of your date, plus why on the OBV of yours, but as you say its easy To mistake an E for a 2 lol, Obviously if a pile of punches were sitting around Then it Would easily picked up, but that would then beg the question as to why more errors did'nt occur

[Coinery 1,157]

But then surely the 2 would have to be in use for it to be in Hand or avaliable?

Your's does have a 2 in date (1592)!

Lol yes i know but i was more curious of your date, plus why on the OBV of yours, but as you say its easy To mistake an E for a 2 lol, Obviously if a pile of punches were sitting around Then it Would easily picked up, but that would then beg the question as to why more errors did'nt occur

Plenty did but, in the main, I'm guessing most people were especially cautious, most of the time, she was a bit of a tyrant, our Liz!

[azda 979]

But then surely the 2 would have to be in use for it to be in Hand or avaliable?

Your's does have a 2 in date (1592)!

Lol yes i know but i was more curious of your date, plus why on the OBV of yours, but as you say its easy To mistake an E for a 2 lol, Obviously if a pile of punches were sitting around Then it Would easily picked up, but that would then beg the question as to why more errors did'nt occur

she was a bit of a tyrant, our Liz!

Sounds a bit Ian Duncan Smith

[HistoricCoinage 147]

Late to the party but I do agree that it looks to be a 2.

[Coinery 1,157]

Late to the party but I do agree that it looks to be a 2.

That's two for a 2, then!

Anymore for anymore?

[Michael-Roo 781]

Count me in. Three for two…..

Sounds like a Tesco offer .

[TomGoodheart 403]

LOL And yes, I can see it too. Do you know how often this '2 phenomenon' comes up Stuart?

Just for a moment I wondered if it was a way of a particular die-maker identifying their work. But then correcting it seems to confirm that it was just an error .. and were I to want to identify my work, I'd probably find a subtler way .. a dot in the centre of an O or something ...

Sorry, just waffling!

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