What have we here?

[malj1]

Effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS rev. squiggles Cu-Ni? 20.2mm

Is it the middles cut from something?

[Bimat]

Looks very strange to me. The inner pill of bimetallic £2?

Aditya

[malj1]

You got it in one, that thought had crossed my mind but I did not think to search.

So this is worth 'arf-a-quid?  but one or two of the blobs on the reverse are wrong. 

see here

[Bimat]

I think it's the inner pill of fake £2... Color doesn't seem right!

Aditya

[Figleaf]

Fake. May well be cast.

Peter

[FosseWay]

Yes, inner pill of a fake £2. Not only is the quality of the engraving/casting indicative of a fake, but also the pill is more likely to fall out of a fake one. I've never seen an unintentionally dismantled genuine £2 - AFAIK the only way to get the pieces to come apart involves a lot of force or heat, which will leave marks on the surfaces of the coin and/or bend the planchet. Not sure whether extreme cold might make the pill pop out - anyone fancy immersing one in a vat of liquid nitrogen?

I have a pill of an Italian 500 lire coin that apparently fell out of its own accord and is apparently genuine. But the 500 lire was IIRC the first mass-produced circulation bimetallic coin and I imagine the technology has improved since then.

[bagerap]

So that's where it went! I've had to make do and mend:

[<k>]

So where did you get THAT funny face from?

[malj1]

Checked my search history with difficulty and found it on this page. Trust me to find an odd one! 

Along the way I found several others do show blobs instead of gears.  so a later issue perhaps.


As a diversion there is a discussion of gears here pointing out that the design was wrong with 19 gears which of course cannot work; but the who is counting? 

[<k>]

Checked my search history with difficulty and found it on this page. Trust me to find an odd one! 

The base of the Queen's neck is way too close to the beads. Clearly it is a forgery.

[<k>]

As a diversion there is a discussion of gears here pointing out that the design was wrong with 19 gears which of course cannot work

We covered that one in the Thematics section: Factual errors and physical impossibilities.

[malj1]

The base of the Queen's neck is way too close to the beads. Clearly it is a forgery.

I see she also missing an ear although she has an ear-ring.

We covered that one in the Thematics section: Factual errors and physical impossibilities.

I thought afterwards that I had read something about it.