The Times of IndiaWorld
£8 coin may hide a 192-year-old minting error
Researchers used three-dimensional imaging and chemical analysis to study a distorted silver sixpence minted in 1834. Its unusual flaws appear to be manufacturing defects, not ordinary wear, offering clues to how Britain’s steam-powered mint produced coins.
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