E-Bay

Got a pound coin off ebay the other week.

Welsh leek, doesn't appear to be fake and I'm told was found in an unopened roll of £1 coins, when opened up in a ladys shop as till change.

However the portrait side is not struck at all and is entirely a flat smooth face. An unnoticed mis-strike by the Royal Mint I assume and certainly worth a fair bit to the right person.

Not a fake but certainly one I wanted to add to my collection of 'oddities'

A Question of Colour

I know that we are all on the look out for anything that has a 'chocolate coin' colouring to it that makes it stand out in the crowd but has anyone else noticed that sometimes you have a 'fake' that seems to be of the more 'white gold' scenario?

I got a 95(!) 3 Lions the other day that, in comparison to true pound coins, seems almost white in colour.

Either I'm right or;
(1) I need a new bulb in my living room or
(2) need to go to Sp*csavers!!