Close-Up Photo of Chinese Error Coins

This is a tray of minting errors, collected by the workers at the Chinese government Mint at Shanghai. The coins are all aluminum, and look to be of the 1 or 2 Fen (or perhaps 5 Fen) denomination, none of which have been produced for more than 15 years now because they have become so small. There are a variety of major minting errors represented here, including severely off-center strikes, and multi-struck coins. Fred says he did his best to try to get permission to take a few of them home with him, but like most official government minting authorities, the Shanghai Mint wasn't about to let these fantastic errors out the door easily! So what happened next? (See the next photo...)