Posted 08/08/2013 8:40 pm
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I thought this was interesting: it was minted in '80, issued in '81, and bears the date of an event in '82.
I thought this was interesting: it was minted in '80, issued in '81, and bears the date of an event in '82.
Archraz is correct; the "hidden" date is the date of minting. So for this coin, what we have is the design was authorised and approved in 1980, minted in 1981 commemorating an event to be held in 1982.
Coins with two dates aren't hard to find; coins with three dates are harder. When I saw your thread topic title, this coin from the Indian state of Jaora was what sprung to my mind; it bears the date in three different calendars, using three different numeral systems: the AD date in Western numerals, the AH date in Arabic numerals and the VS date in Devanagari numerals. But a coin bearing three completely different dates in the same calendar is indeed unusual.
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
Spanish coins, even though I do collect, become on my list of least favourite because of this. New collectors get easily confused.
