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Saudi Riyal with error?

coffeycecoffeyce Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
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This is a saudi Riyal I got in a silver lot a while back. It has a nice strike on one side then smooth as a butt on the other with no trace of ever beening struck.

http://usera.imagecave.com/coffeyce/P7020039.JPG

http://usera.imagecave.com/coffeyce/P7020040.JPG

Chris

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  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭

    Image help.....

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    Becky
  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,263 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A coin that's been well struck on one side and completely blank on the other is almost certainly going to have had one side ground off post-mint.

    That's because it's impossible to create a coin with only one die, just like it's impossible to clap with only one hand. To "strike" a coin like that, a specially prepared completely blank die would have had to have been made.

    As confirmation, weigh the coin. This coin is supposed to weigh 11.60 grams; a coin polished flat on one side would have lost a measurable amount of silver.
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  • ColinCMRColinCMR Posts: 1,482 ✭✭✭
    maybe someone was going to engrave that side?
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