1822 Tertio crown notch?

[SamThomasldn]

Hi all 

hope everyone is having a great bank holiday weekend!

Curious about this notch on this 1822 crown.. I'm assuming as its at 12 o'clock above the bust, it is for mounting purposes? 

Has anyone an example of how a coin would have looked with a mount like this? I'm just trying to get my head around why such a notch would have to be cut. 

Thanks all!

[arphethean]

It's an odd one!

I don't think that's deliberately made. It's not a ding either as there is no distortion of the details around the notch. If the notch had been bright, I might suspect an unfortunate encounter with an angle grinder. Not really, but a abrasive corner of some description.

[SamThomasldn]

2 hours ago, arphethean said:

It's an odd one!

I don't think that's deliberately made. It's not a ding either as there is no distortion of the details around the notch. If the notch had been bright, I might suspect an unfortunate encounter with an angle grinder. Not really, but a abrasive corner of some description.

Baffling for sure.

It's just where the notch is located thats got me wondering, nearly 12 o'clock dead. And the diamond shape of the cut. Too perfect to not be deliberate.

A mystery it shall remain, it seems.

[arphethean]

Have you checked the weight? Details seem good to me but I have seen weird defects on fakes

[SamThomasldn]

 

1 hour ago, arphethean said:

Have you checked the weight? Details seem good to me but I have seen weird defects on fakes

 

Yup, Weight is normal

 

 

[CollectForFun]

Hi, this is just a guess, but it seems there is similar damage, although at much smaller scale, right across the coin at 6 o'clock. One explanation could be that the coin was set in a frame and those marks indicate the spots where it was held by small clips to prevent the coin's movement and rotation in the frame. The cuts could have been made either to help the coin be held more firmly in the frame, or when removing the coin from it.

In any case, the edge looks otherwise perfect and the coin face does not bear any typical signs of being ex-mount such as excessive polishing. How does the reverse look like?

Also, I have a French Ecu coin in my collection with very similar cut to its edge and my theory about it at one point was that it was made to check if the coin was solid silver and not just silver-plated. But, with an object over 200 years old, anything could have been happening with it during all that time...

[SamThomasldn]

35 minutes ago, CollectForFun said:

Hi, this is just a guess, but it seems there is similar damage, although at much smaller scale, right across the coin at 6 o'clock. One explanation could be that the coin was set in a frame and those marks indicate the spots where it was held by small clips to prevent the coin's movement and rotation in the frame. The cuts could have been made either to help the coin be held more firmly in the frame, or when removing the coin from it.

In any case, the edge looks otherwise perfect and the coin face does not bear any typical signs of being ex-mount such as excessive polishing. How does the reverse look like?

Also, I have a French Ecu coin in my collection with very similar cut to its edge and my theory about it at one point was that it was made to check if the coin was solid silver and not just silver-plated. But, with an object over 200 years old, anything could have been happening with it during all that time...

I did spot that but that looked more like a ding to me. 

This is a good point though, about it being to prevent movement in the frame. I'm just looking at potential mount methods and this spinner type caught my eye.

Instead of it being fully mounted to the spokes to spin, perhaps there was one spoke just to hold it in place via the notch. 

 

 

Reverse of the crown 

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