Für Spaß identifizieren?

[villa66]

Hier ist eine, die ich nicht bei fast einem Junkbox am letzten Wochenende durchsuchen. Im letzten Moment, aber es schließlich geklickt... Glück!
Wenn jemand es für Spaß identifizieren will, werde ich es ein oder zwei Tage geben...

v.

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Here is one I almost missed when searching through a junkbox last weekend. At the last moment, though, it finally clicked...lucky!
If anyone wants to identify it for fun, I’ll give it a day or two...

v.

[Chippi]

Nette Fehlprägung!

Gruß Chippi

[villa66]

Danke, Chippi!

In New Zealand, this coin is called “The Bahamas Mule.”

The UK’s Royal Mint was working hard in 1967, trying to keep up with the radical changes in Commonwealth coinage occurring at the time. The Bahamas had—only the year before, in 1966—introduced a completely new decimal coinage. In 1967, New Zealand was introducing a new decimal coinage of its own. (And of course Great Britain would itself begin using new decimal coins in 1968.)

The story goes that one evening at a shift change, a Bahamas coin die used to strike copper-nickel 5-cent coins was accidently left in a coin press that was intended to be used for bronze New Zealand 2-cent coins. The obverses:

[villa66]

And the reverses.....

[villa66]

Speaking of the copper-nickel Bahamas 5-cent type of 1966-70 (KM#3), the Krause SCWC says: “The obverse of this coin also comes muled with the reverse of a New Zealand 2-cent piece, KM#32. The undated 1967 error is listed as New Zealand KM#33.”

Krause estimates that 50,000 of these mules exist, and prices an AU example like this one at about $17.

How many of these mules actually exist is unknown, however. All of the error coins were shipped to New Zealand, and many entered circulation. Only after people actually began using them was the error discovered. The authorities immediately began to withdraw the coins, with some success. And many of the new coins, of course, remained unissued.

But then the NZ authorities—at some later date—also permitted many of the (1967) “Bahamas Mules” to be given out to the public for promotional purposes. Whether the coins were distributed beyond the country’s borders I don’t know. Prices for the coin did fall for a time, but then began to climb again.

The (1967) “Bahamas-New Zealand 2-cent?” It remains one of the best known “mules” in the world of coin-collecting.

v.