Undated Coin Reaching Massive Prices On Ebay
You may have seen on the news recently either on tv in a paper or on the internet that the Royal Mint accidentally printed some 20p coins on which the new design combined with human error had resulted in no date appearing on the coin anywhere.
These coins are named ‘mules’ (probably a reference to the mule being a mix of horse and donkey) because they have one side which has the correct design on and one side which has the wrong design on, in this case the ‘heads’ side should have the date on it and presently does on all new 20ps now being printed.
These coins were immediately recognised as being very rare (according to the BBC there has not been a coin in the UK with no date for over 300 years) and very valuable. The London Mint Office put up a website straight away offering to pay
