S&Co Error Coins and Oddities

Like with all coins the S&Co have a number of known error pieces and oddities - the pieces linked below are in the Balson Holdings Family Trust Collection.

Pieces include:

Weak Strikes, loss of detail, unholed, possible 3rd In Goods variety, irregular holing, miss struck, clipped planchet and broken planchet.  

Pieces include:

Unholed, possible 3rd In Goods variety, irregular holing, miss struck, clipped planchet, 2nd (hole) punch, egg shaped, and beautifully toned.

Pieces include:

Weak Strikes, unholed, miss struck, clipped planchet.

Pieces include:

Weak Strikes, loss of detail, irregular holing, miss struck, clipped planchet and struck with "CG" (CG are the initials for a well known beauty who lived in East Griqualand in the 1870s).

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