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rggoodie Moderator United States 23513 Posts	Posted 04/20/2006 07:38 am I am seeking to find the oldest use of the Mule term and who used it and it's meaning. It seems we have lost the original meaning for a few of the terms we use. Some people think the term may have been first used in the US and may be in some early numismatic journals etc. Can anyone identify where the term came from and when? rggoodie aka Richard "catch em doing something right" Report this Post to the Staff

Bryan1315 Bedrock of the Community United States 14454 Posts	Posted 04/20/2006 07:49 am not sure when it originated but I do know in the 1800's people used the term mule for a textile machine that used the front of one machine and the back of another, dont know if people just used the same term when a coin with the same charactoristics was found or if the term mule for coins was used before that or not. I would assume this term came about because of the animal mule, a match of a horse and a butt. The product is not a true horse, nor a true ass, but a mule. I was looking and found a MULE I never knew existed a quarter and Sacagawea dollar mule (guess I have been under a rock when it comes to mules because they say this is the mostpopular mule)http://www.coinfacts.com/error_coin...wea_mule.htm Edited by Bryan1315 04/20/2006 08:08 am Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16827 Posts	Posted 04/20/2006 10:02 am I don't know how relevant it is, but the "Doty Encyclopedic Dictoionary of Numismatics" uses, as their primary example of mules, the various issues of Mexican coins from the Alamos mint in the 1870's. Doty doesn't explicitly say so, but they could well be the first coins called "mules", though "muling" of tokens was known about as far back as the 1790's. 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 Report this Post to the Staff
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