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Are there any known errors on an 1834 5 Francs coin?


B4bullion

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I bought a lot of silver coins, and amongst them was a couple 5 Francs coins. The one was normal but the other had quite an obvious flaw with it. What I am wondering is wether this is a minting error or wether it has been made after minting. 

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1 hour ago, B4bullion said:

Are there any known errors on an 1834 5 Francs coin?

I bought a lot of silver coins, and amongst them was a couple 5 Francs coins. The one was normal but the other had quite an obvious flaw with it. What I am wondering is wether this is a minting error or wether it has been made after minting. 

 

There probably are, but this is not a minting error.

Just apply some logical thinking to it, and you would probably find the answer for yourself.

Although the reverse is very worn, the one small strip is still quite sharp, and not as worn. The most obvious explanation is that it has had something stuck to it which has protected it from some wear, before being removed or falling off.

Simple?

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That section is not raised, that area is deeper than the rest of the coin. This would account for it not being as worn down as the rest of the coin. If it were so simple as to have something stuck to it, it would have also prevented the area closest to the mark from being worn. 

Sorry, I'm not convinced that it's not a minting error. I'm not saying it is a minting error, but I'm not ruling that option out just yet.

That's not one I thought about, but I don't think that is the answer. Thanks for your comment

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It's certainly an interesting error/damage because if the depression occured on the blank already before the minting, how could the details be struck in the area to which the die could not have reached?

So assuming the blank was error-free, then the depression could have originated from striking, but that would imply that the die had some substantial error which I find unlikely.

So then the coin could have been totally fine after being struck and the depression could have occured by some external force only later on, thus preserving the details within the depressed area from wear. But neither here I can think of any practical way to depress an area of the surface without damaging the details, so I still have no idea how something like this could have occured...

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