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I have been sent a letter by The Royal Mint informing me that one of the coins in the collection has a word misspelt and that they are re-striking this coin. they have requested that I return the faulty coin and they will send me a replacement with the correct spelling. What should I do? Further to above. The coin is the Diamond Jubilee Pitcairn Islands 2 Dollar 2013 Royal Variety Performance coin where the word 'Variety' has been spelt 'Varety'. The coin is part of the 24 coin collection Edited by Paddymac
09/11/2013 07:25 am
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 to the Community! I moved your welcome post to the 'United Kingdom (Great Britain) Coins' forum for the proper attention.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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More information please!
Not always, but sometimes, error coins are more interesting to collectors than the 'correct' version.
So I guess it depends on the mis-spelling, the coin ... and whether the mistake bothers you!
A photo of the 'offending coin' would be of interest to members I think! At least see what people think before you send it back.
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United Kingdom
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Yeah, I'd like to see this coin, and a copy of the letter too.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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Dont send it back! Nooo!
Its worth a heck of a lot more than the actual thing (as long as more than half are eventually returned and reissued). The mint rarely does this stuff - you might remember the mule 20p which they offered £50/coin for.
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Pillar of the Community
United Kingdom
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The Mint never did offer to buy back the undated 20p - the offer was from "the London Mint Office" who are no connection to the mint. I've yet to find anyone who actually sold them a 20p - the idea seems to have been to generate a list of names of which to add to their mailing list. The Royal Mint did recall some 1989 gold £2 coins. |
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United Kingdom
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I had exactly the same letter and I haven't sent it back!
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New Member
United Kingdom
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    Received this letter late August and googled shortly after but no real info about the coin until I noticed this forum........ Images attached for everyone's info. Not sent the coin back yet, and don't really intend sending back.....unless I can purchase another one. |
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United Kingdom
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Depends on how many of the error coins were released? It could be that EVERYONE decides to keep hold of their error coins (it seems to be the case on here, at least), and those who opt for the replacement could be the ones in possession of the rarer piece?
I confess that I quickly browsed the British Coin posts, looking for an opportunity to get on board, even though modern milled is certainly not my field of interest...wrong queen for me :)
Interesting situation though...I'd get both!
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I would assume the error/mis-spelling coin is going to end up being the rarer of the two, simply because, from the phrasing on the letter... Quote:
...offering the relatively few people who had already received this coin... ...I would assume that they caught the error before most of them were sent out and that all the error coins sitting in the mint vaults awaiting delivery have already been scrapped and replaced. Of course, that could just be what they want you to think. Did anyone order this set and not receive the error coin? 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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Writing a letter to a collector who is informed that they may have a rare error, seems like an exercise in futility to me! The Royal Mint did this type of thing with their gold Two Pounds / Two Sovereigns of 1994. This particular coin had no date on it. Those who returned their error coin received in return the correct piece, with the Bank of England 300 year commemorative reverse. The error piece is MUCH scarcer!  I just wonder how many customers returned their error coins? Which Mint employee got a kick in the backside for the error? "Naw, wasn't me!"  |
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Australia
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Any further information if this coin was restruck with corrected spelling.
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Posted 09/10/2013 12:10 pm
