bizarre Italy coin

rmuniak

Has anyone ever seen something like this. km27 italy 1893 10 centesimi. struck backwards. The back is barely visible

rmuniak

Sorry this is reverse

realeswatcher

Looks to be a legitimate brockage error... which is observed on Italian pieces of this era.

https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=centesimi+(brockage+incuse)&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=3&currency=usd&company=

I say "looks to be" because the other side (which should show that design - but correctly struck) is so worn that it shows ZERO detail that I can see... so a "press job" can't be definitively ruled out.

Sapyx

For a coin to be "struck backwards", it has to be struck by another coin, rather than by the die. This can happen in two ways:

• It can happen in the mint, when a coin gets stuck in the coinage press rather than ejected as normal. The first coin then "becomes the die" for the second, and the second coin receives a mirror-image impression. This is a mint error, called a "brockage".
• It can happen in the backyard shed, by squeezing a coin into a blank flat piece of metal. This is most usually done to create a circulating coujnterfeit coin, which looks real enough at first glance until you look closely and see it's actually mirror-reversed. They were not intended to conuse coin collectors. These counterfeits are called "slugs".

Your coin is of the second type. The off-centre strike, in conjunction with the complete lack of detail on the other side, indicate this was not done at the mint but is rather a private counterfeit.

rmuniak

Thanks guys I knew you would come to a logical explanation. So I will add it to my curiosity coins.

EBSnumismatics

Looks like a vice job to me.