An error coin is a coin manufactured incorrectly or one that is
manufactured correctly on damaged or incorrectly made dies. Errors have
been produced by a wide variety of mistakes. Error coins result when
something goes wrong during the minting process, but while these pieces
would be mint rejects, most collectors would love to own them. A mule
coin is a coin struck with dies that were not intended to be paired. "A
numismatic mule is a fascinating creature, a hybrid of two designs never
meant to appear together,” Coin World senior news editor William T.
Gibbs wrote in 1992. "Some are accidental in nature, true errors that
any collector would welcome in his or her collection. Other mules were
deliberately produced, either accidentally, out of necessity to meet
coinage demands, or from a desire to produce something special (even if
fraudulent) for collectors." There is a market for mules just like there
is for correctly struck coins. The hybrid coins take their name, of
course, from the hard-working animal that results from the
cross-breeding of a horse and a donkey — half one thing and half the
other.
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