French 20 Centimes Coin - Both Sides the Same

Is this a fantastic error or a fake? For a modern coin I would guess a fake, but I couldn't see why anybody would fake this otherwise cheap coin.

SORRY FOR THE BAD OBVERSE PICTURE!

What does the edge look like?

Reeded.

Oh! a magic coin

Цитата: FrenchloverOh! a magic coin

But under the Vichy French State would such counterfeiting be tolerated?

Hi!

Please post a picture in front of a mirror.

Цитата: monéphilHi!

Please post a picture in front of a mirror.

It's coin alignment if that's what you need.

It's necessary to get the two faces in the same picture in order to prove the truth of your words and to question  french coins experts.

It's been hard.. I hope you like it:

Great, thanks

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For me it's an error coin

An answer

This type of currency still required the utmost caution before you say it is true ...
Positive: it is on the currency hits!
Must be obtained as the weight.
Then it is a direct examination is necessary to investigate the potential hack:
Check tranche, the appearance of the hole and check the sound of money.
In short it is potentially a good faulted, but it'll have to be very sure before declaring it as such ...
cordially
Franck Perrin
President of Friends of Franc

Might be a brokerage error coin, but looks like a full brokerage in this case (which is very rare). Also I believe one side should be incused in case of brokerage error, which does not seem to be the case.

I asked about the edge because it's common (especially for the big American Kennedy half dollar) for some coins to be cut up and reassembled into "magicians' coins". Some Americans go through thousands of dollars' worth of half dollar boxes every month (looking for silver, of course) and I have seen the occasional thread about such a magician's coin found in a roll of normal coins: two reverses, two obverses, hollow interior, uniface, etc... and these are usually given away by a seam on the edge showing where two sides were reassembled.

However, unlike the showy, rarely seen American half dollar, there seems to be no reason to use this miserable piece of zinc for a magic trick: surely a trick involving a holed coin would look a lot classier with the slightly older holed copper-nickel centime coins. So it is more likely to be real... but there is still the chance that it is just a worn-out piece of shenanigans past due.

Well what is it? I know what it isn't, I don't need to hear that!

It's an error coin, they put two obverse die on the minting press instead of one obverse and one reverse die.
It's an error that happens sometimes

If you want to swap it I always have coins reserved for you

I've checked un a book, and your error coin is known.

Цитата: monéphilI've checked un a book, and your error coin is known.

I would gladly swap it, but I don't know how much it is worth. It could be the next 1933 Double Eagle!  

Not really

I'll send you a PM

How about a good picture of the edge, then it would be possible to say if it's truly an error coin or not.