£2 Coin Errors

[cassa333]

Not sure where this question goes so it is here for now anway lol

DD got a rare £2 Lord Kitchener in her change where the writing on the edge is the wrong way round. Looking on tinternet mint condition ones are going for a couple hundred quid. Hers is well used so not worth much I would have thought.

But looking at other £2 coins we have about the house and the one signing the Magna Carta is also upside down.

Did they put some the wrong way up or is it also an minting error?

I have tried looking up the Magna Carta one but the error that keeps coming up is that it wasn't signed with a quill lol

Thanks

[ABerrant]

Upside down edge lettering is not a minting error. The edge lettering is applied to the blanks before the coin is then struck which is why some coins can end up with the edge lettering upside down.

[cassa333]

Oh. All the searches I have done say they are minting errors. But at the end of the day they are not right lol

[ABerrant]

That's the internet for you.

[Mamyalynne]

Some interesting info here and a few myths exploded too.

https://blog.changechecker.org/2016/06/24/mis-strikes-and-myths/

[Jackdaw33]

I remember as a boy that we used to check our change in the hope of finding a 1933 penny, of which only six were minted and only two unaccounted for.