Jau kuris laikas e-bay vis isplaukdavo 20 pencu monetu su klaidom, o stai dabar jau ir telegraph.co.uk parase apie monetas be datos:
Mix-up at Royal Mint creates dateless 20p pieces worth £50A technical error at the Royal Mint led to up to 200,000 coins entering circulation without a date for what is thought to be the first time in more than 300 years.
By John Bingham
Published: 7:00AM BST 29 Jun 2009
The London Mint Office, a private company specialising in unusual coins, is offering anyone who finds one £50
The new 20 pence pieces are now considered to be collectors' items, with one dealer offering £50 a coin to anyone who finds one among their spare change.
It followed the introduction of new coins bearing a fragmented image of the royal coat of arms on the reverse - or "tails" - side and a new profile of the Queen on the front.
In order to accommodate the new design the date had moved to the "heads" side on 20p pieces.
But one batch of between 50,000 and 200,000 coins was produced with the new back and the old front, meaning that there was no date.
Despite checks, the error went unnoticed until after the coins had already entered circulation.
The London Mint Office, a private company specialising in unusual coins, is offering anyone who finds one £50 - 250 times their legal value - in the hope of selling them to collectors for an even higher price.
Nick Hart, of The London Mint Office, said: "We believe this extremely rare error will certainly get the public looking at the coins in their pockets again and noticing the excellent new designs launched by the Royal Mint last year on our coinage."
A Royal Mint spokeswoman said: "The fact of the matter is they are still legal tender but if people want to pay more it's up to them."
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Parašytas: Sek Lap 16, 2008 6:15 pm
