2014 UK 5 Pence Coin With Crazy Multiple Die Chips And Letters On Neck, Why?

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2014 UK 5 Pence Coin With Crazy Multiple Die Chips And Letters On Neck, Why?
Coin excellent condtion, die chip explosion on Queen, die crack on Z,
Letter "TI" and "I" on Queen's neck, "TI" and "I" definitely not die chip,
Can any member guide me about this coin?

Thank you,

Sapyx

Whenever someone posts a coin with "multiple weird errors", I try to find a single cause or explanation for all of them, rather than try to imagine a fanciful chain of mysterious and improbable events, all happening sequentially. It's simply applying Occam's Razor.

Occam's Razor suggests your coin is coated in a clear layer of glue or similar resin. That would cause all kinds of "die chips", and "doubling", as well as "holes" where the glue hasn't covered. The large crater at about the queen's ear resembles just such a hole in the glue.

You might say "No, it's definitely metal, not glue", but clear transparent glue sitting on top of metal will look exactly like metal and has fooled a great many error-hunters in the past. So before we rule out this hypothesis completely let's at least give the coin a nice soaking in acetone and see if a large majority of these "die chips" don't simply wash off.

Now let's look at the "TI". To me, it doesn't look like a TI, but does look exactly like half of the letter "A", the same size and shape as what we see over in the legend in "ELIZABETH". So now let's consider how would that get there? I don't know, but if we examine the glue theory, perhaps another coin was glued there and this is a dip or hole in the glue where that other coin was resting, leaving an imprint of that coin's "A" on this coin. It's certainly a lot easier to get what looks like half of a letter wandering halfway across a coin if there's glue involved, rather than it somehow happening in the Mint.

Finally, we have what certainly looks like a die crack from the neck to the rim, coming through the Z. This does look like a genuine die crack, and is certainly in a good place for a die crack to form, at a weak point in the die.

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