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Post your examples of a mid-year design, composition, or value change! Both coins should be issued by the same legal state or entity (or successor state in some cases), and should be the same denomination, or comparable buying power for hyperinflationary issues. To keep things interesting, lets limit it to circulating, non-commemorative issues only. Some examples:

Design:
- 1916 transition from Barber -> Merc, SLQ, Walker designs
- Death of a monarch (Would have to research an example but you know what I mean)
- Designs issued in parallel, such as the Large Cent and Flying Eagle cent

Size or composition:
- 1942 nickel transition from cupronickel to billon
- Canadian cents issued in both copper-plated zinc and copper-plated steel
- Same design used on a large and small coin of the same denomination

Value:
- Soviet 1991 kopek coins, and 1991 coins denominated in rubles following a few months of economic free fall
- German 1923 insane inflation rates

Regime change:
- Any of the WWII occupation coinage
- Conquest or independence (Post-conquest coinage should be made at the same mint in the conquered state)

What does NOT count:
- Commemoratives, patterns, or NCLT of any sort (Sorry, we don't want to see all 50 State Quarters!)
- Coins issued by separate entities--e.g. Indian Princely states, city-issued Notgeld, Conder tokens
- Minor varieties (No WAMs)

And remember that the coins should show off the fact that they were both issued in the same calendar year... they should preferably be dated in the AD scheme using Arabic numerals (1234567890), but I will let the community vote if we want to be flexible on this rule.

I'll need to dig through my collection for my examples, but I will let this thread get started!

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I'll post a recent example from my home country - last year's 2p coins with the earlier (Ian Rank-Broadley) and later (Jody Clark) portraits:

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Very nice! I never would have guessed the UK switched portraits mid-year... I had always assumed they made the change between years.
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Here's one...

1916 Barber dime

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1916 Mercury dime

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Death of a monarch (Would have to research an example but you know what I mean)


Queen Victoria died on January 22nd 1901 and King Edward VII was declared King on the same day.
The Maundy coins are handed out on Maundy Thursday , the day before Easter Friday.
The Maundy coins for 1901 bore Queen Victoria's portrait But would have been handed out by the new King on that day.

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Most modern French coins have two privy marks, either side of the date. The left-hand mark represents the Master of the Mint, and is always shown as a cornucopia. The right-hand mark represents the Chief Engraver, and occasionally two different versions of coins have appeared when there has been a change of Chief Engraver during the year.

These two 10-centime coins from 1994 illustrate this. The left-hand coin has a dolphin to the right of the date, representing Chief Engraver Emile Rousseau (1974-94), and the right-hand coin has a bee, symbol of Pierre Rodier, who held the office from 1994 to 2000.

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