Coin without a year

Ralf · Post by **Ralf** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:18 pm

I found today a dutch 1c without a year

The letters Beatrix are also missing.
Someone saw something like that before?

AlexanderB · Post by **AlexanderB** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:29 pm

Can you post a scan / picture of it please?

Grtz. AlexanderB

-> heb misschien wel interesse

Ralf · Post by **Ralf** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 9:07 pm

I'll do as soon as possible.

Senior · Post by **Senior** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:25 pm

My educated guess (as a specialist on euro coins with errors) before seeing a picture is that there was some dirt on the die when the coin was struck. If I'm right, the place where the year should be, is somewhat deeper than the rest of the coin and with an uneven surface.
There is most likely a (small) series of these coins in circulation. Such errors are not rare, but quite nice nevertheless. I have a variety of them in my own collection, the most severe hardly recognizable as a Dutch coin.
Greetings,

Senior