123. Malaysia 50 sen 200x

image 1: obverse and reverse of the coin

   

This is an indeed a genuine mint error coin, not a post mint damage. The letterings and part of the date cannot be seen because the incuse areas of the dies were filled with grease. Grainy surfaces is evident that perhaps the mint employees had forgotten to clear up the grease they used to the dies.

92.Malaysia x999 Filled Die Error

image 1: obverse and reverse of the coin

image 2: close up view 

     Only silhouette of the number 1 can be seen.  A type of minor error which can be found easily among our circulation coins. This post by  Mr Dickson describes how this happen in a simple way.

    Usually die filled error does not have any premium but still of course you can sell it for mutual agreement, including to me. I am still interested in this die filled error because they can create speculation (not this specimen of course). For example if the last digit of the year on the coin cannot be seen, how would you guess the year the coin was minted for?

    And through the net I have found out that a die filled error has caused an American coin to form the words " IN GOD WE RUST" instead of " IN GOD WE TRUST ". Quite interesting specimen to have isn't?