Norway: How to write "11"

[chrisild]

In a few months (1 May 2012) the Norwegian 50 øre coins will cease to be legal tender - but apparently "error hunters" get a last chance this year.   The central bank (Norges Bank) had ordered ten million 50 øre pieces from the mint, to be delivered this year. Turned out that, after striking more than eight million of them, an error was discovered: The two digits "1" at the end of the year are mirrored.

http://www.norges-bank.no/en/about/news-archive/77905/50-ore-coins-with-date-error/

Norges Bank decided to release the pieces into circulation, as making new ones would be too costly. And in less than a year, the 50 øre coin, error or not, will be history anyway. Collectors will still be interested - and maybe even more so when they can grab one of these. Attached is the picture from the central bank's media release. Note that the image is upside down; this way you can see the year better.

Christian

[Figleaf]

That's all fine, but some well-paid manager type must be responsible for the error, or rather, the approval of the design with the error. Was he sanctioned?

Peter

[translateltd]

That's all fine, but some well-paid manager type must be responsible for the error, or rather, the approval of the design with the error. Was he sanctioned?

Peter

"Sanctioned" is one of those wonderful English words that has two meanings, almost diametrically opposed: "approved" or "punished".  Quite amusing that both would work in this sentence and still make sense!

I used to think "Noreg" was a typo for "Norge" until I realised it was the "other" version of Norwegian that is clamouring for equal time.

[augsburger]

So this one is the normal one, getting one with the right date will be harder to find!

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Dear Christian

Nice find !

Samir

[chrisild]

That's all fine, but some well-paid manager type must be responsible for the error, or rather, the approval of the design with the error. Was he sanctioned?

Don't know, but in this case of a mere date change, I don't think so.

So this one is the normal one, getting one with the right date will be harder to find!

Right, roughly 8 million "wrong elevens" vs 2 million "correct elevens". Still, I find the odd version more interesting.

Christian

[izotz]

So this one is the normal one, getting one with the right date will be harder to find!

As Christian said, this is more appealing. But also, some coin type (and not date) collectors would only get this one. Anyway, 8 million pieces should be enough, unless dealers manage to speculate with them.

[chrisild]

unless dealers manage to speculate with them

Hmm, if I was mean and rotten, I would now begin to assume that this was done on purpose.   The Norwegian mint (Norske Myntverket) is jointly owned by the Mint of Finland and Samlerhuset ...

Christian

[izotz]

Hmm, if I was mean and rotten, I would now begin to assume that this was done on purpose.   The Norwegian mint (Norske Myntverket) is jointly owned by the Mint of Finland and Samlerhuset ...

Christian

Hmmm... If this was done on purpose, as sometimes it seems it has been done, there would only be 200,000 pieces of the mirrored 11.
It is interesting to know who is behind an issue.

[Coinsforever]

That's all fine, but some well-paid manager type must be responsible for the error, or rather, the approval of the design with the error. Was he sanctioned?

Peter

This modern error coin from sophisticated mint is un- digestible due to  the matter of fact that quality checks &  processes are becoming more stringent .

I agree that it is delibrate error created by group .

Cheers

[augsburger]

Other countries have the same problems, the newly invented nation of Chiie produced a nice coin, until they realised they were actually Chile. Portugal had one where they spelt portuguese wrong, there must be quite a few out there. I didn't see the chilian one in chile though, in fact the coin i could only find from very early dates (1990s) and not 2008 as this coin was.  Boo 

[Bimat]

There was a coin from 'BBASIL' too..



Aditya

[izotz]

I didn't see the chilian one in chile though, in fact the coin i could only find from very early dates (1990s) and not 2008 as this coin was.  Boo 

This is the image for "Chiie" :


http://saladehistoria.com/wp/2010/02/12/moneda-de-la-republica-de-chiie/

[<k>]

This is the image for "Chiie" :

Pedro Urzúa Lizana was the engraver at fault. He later designed three of the new Uruguayan circulation series of 2011, so he has recovered from his error. 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1250580/Chile-mint-gets-country-wrong-coin.html

[Bimat]

I really don't think that it's a deliberate error. If it was, they wouldn't have struck 8 million pieces.

Aditya