Is there any other British error coins that we should know about, Like any Half Pennies or one pennies. Can anyone list what they know on Error British coins.
Posted 07/02/2009 8:54 pm
The Royal Mint produces coins for other countries besides Britain itself, and there are certainly errors in those series. One that comes to mind is the famous "New Zealand - Bahamas mule", with a Bahama Islands 5¢ obverse and a New Zealand 2¢ reverse. These coins also happen to be "undated", though it is known they were struck in 1967, when New Zealand's decimal coinage began.
Certainly in the 1800's there are plenty of unusual "varieties" which could be considered errors. Upside-down "A"s used instead of "V"s, Roman "I"s instead of numeral "1"s, mis-spellings, that sort of thing. Then there's the 1849 "Godless" florin, which could be considered an error in judgement more than an actual mint error.
Not to say modern errors don't exist, though. Besides the usual mis-strikes, wrong planchets etc, this site mentions another modern "mule", where coins dated 1983 were struck with the obsolete "new pence" reverse.
Certainly in the 1800's there are plenty of unusual "varieties" which could be considered errors. Upside-down "A"s used instead of "V"s, Roman "I"s instead of numeral "1"s, mis-spellings, that sort of thing. Then there's the 1849 "Godless" florin, which could be considered an error in judgement more than an actual mint error.
Not to say modern errors don't exist, though. Besides the usual mis-strikes, wrong planchets etc, this site mentions another modern "mule", where coins dated 1983 were struck with the obsolete "new pence" reverse.
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