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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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I'm sorry if this was already discussed. Today I've noticed an Uganda coin with the denomination spelled as "Lingsschil". Does it qualify as an error, was it intentionally made? What do you think?   This is a copy of the seller's photo. Unfortunately, enlarging it doesn't help a lot. Edited by DL20K
01/13/2010 1:57 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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DL, your "mint" made an error too, you spelled it with extra "c"  Sometimes some countries look for ways to express their independence from former imperial powers, and they experiment with names, be it national currency or other terminology. Mutilating former colonial denomination could be one of those exercises. |
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Pillar of the Community
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DL, your "mint" made an error too, you spelled it with extra "c" It's because I see Austrian coins too often.. almost every time I spell shilling with an extra C  Quote:
Sometimes some countries look for ways to express their independence from former imperial powers But the coin's only from 2004. Isn't Uganda independent since the 1960s? Their bank website also doesn't say there was a change in the name. I found a photo of the coin without the error:  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Then, maybe, certain Ugandan officials need lingspel lessons!?
As for rebelling at a "mature" age, you never know when a crazy bug may bite them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Hmmm...interesting! Did you see this eBay auction? where it's called an error? It appears they're using the same photo, and those look like well-struck coins, and not cast. I could not find any other info. Edited by DVCollector
01/13/2010 5:58 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For some reason I wasn't even thinking fakes. Would it be worth doing those for profit? But it does fit the Chinese wizards' style.
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Pillar of the Community
Poland
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Quote: Did you see this ebay auction No, I noticed a local auction, which ended today. However, it looks like to be the same seller (which would explain why the photo is the same). Looks like there are quite many avaialble.. |
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It's definitely supposed to be "shillings", not "lingsshil". I would suspect fake/spurious coinage. A google search of "lingsshil" only pops up with the same guy in Poland selling them. The only possible way these could be legitimate mint errors is if the Polish Mint struck these coins for Uganda, and these "errors" were smuggled out. Numismaster doesn't give the mint for these.
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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