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Was scrolling and saw this in numista https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces1282.htmlMule - Struck on a Sri Lanka 50 Cent planchet Mintage of supposedly 1. One Did some research as in 1981, some Australian coins were struck in Wales. Wales mint did strike some coins for Sri Lanka as well so somehow some mint sport did occur... I thought that's pretty neat... |
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This mint error should be called "wrong planchet".
"Mule" means mis-match obv/rev die pair.
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Is there any pics of this?
I've seen 20 cents struck over Hong Kong $2 and 1 dollar struck over Venezuela 1 Bolivar or 2 dollar struck over 10 euro cents
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Interesting - first I've heard of it.
Does Numista track contributions so we can see who added it?
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Ah, I think I've cracked why it's called a "mule", and why there aren't pics of it.
Up until 1982, the Sri Lankan 50 cents coin (KM 135.1) had a security edge - that's the edge that looks like a "coin sandwich", with top and bottom milled as usual, but in between is a deep groove with designs stamped inside the groove. The other specs are very close to that of the 10 cent piece (cupronickel, 5.5 grams).
So the "mule" has a security edge. And it can technically be called a "mule" because a wrong die was indeed used to make the coin: the wrong third die, the collar die, the one with the security edge. It hadn't actually been used for Sri Lankan coins since 1978, so was presumably sitting around the mint in storage, perhaps incorrectly labelled.
I'm only puzzled as to how they know "only one" was made; if it's a genuine mint error, the number made would be unknown.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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As Sap mentioned, the supposedly mintage of one is interesting.
Surely some cricket and coin fan would jump at this coin when it comes to Australia and Sri Lanka. Or I'm hearing crickets...
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Nice - do you know when it last sold?
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Would have to be a Royal Mint strike. Mints normally receive blanks, but upset the edge into planchets and strike in the Mint. Since the RM strike for many Countries (including Sri Lanka) and the RAM did not for this denomination and date it follows that this coin eminated from London or Llanstrissant. |
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I own this piece and thought I'd do some research
Isn't 1981 also the same year the famous scallop 20 cents was struck too?
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I own this piece and thought I'd do some research
Isn't 1981 also the same year the famous scallop 20 cents was struck too?
Ah nice - and yes it was. Must have a busy year in Llantrisant.
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Posted 08/05/2022 9:16 pm
