PART VI. Striking Errors:
Bi-metallic Errors:
Wrong Ring
Definition: Bi-metallic error coins are restricted to foreign countries. These coins may experience any of the many types of striking errors listed in the Error-Variety Ready Reference however, one must understand we are dealing with two components, a ring & a core. Any number of exotic possibilities or combinations of die varieties, die errors, planchet errors & striking errors can be found on bi-metallic coinage.
Occurs when a normal core is joined with a wrong ring. These errors are unequivocally rare.
A two pound 2006 Isambard Brunnel from Great Britain.
The ring is is strongly attracted to a magnet. (Either elemental nickel or steel composition).
Weight: 10.30 grams.
A two pound Technology from Great Britain. Ring is strongly attracted to a magnet (steel ring). The ring also has a misaligned center hole. The ring is much thinner than the core resulting in the near incomplete absence of design transfer on either face of the ring. The ring also sheared & snapped when struck.
A two pound 2007 Gun Powder Plot from Great Britain with wrong ring. The ring also has a misaligned center hole. The ring is thinner than the core resulting in the absence of some design transfer on either face of the ring.
