What do you think of this? http://cgi.ebay.com/Canada-2010-Specimen-10-Cents-Mule-Error-Dime-SCARCE-/200549985823 Is this an actual "rare" mule error of some sort? I highly doubt it because I have a couple of these myself. I came across this when I was checking some pricing, so I could sell all my specimen coins.
i don't think so, it looks like a 2010 definitive issue, as usual someone on fleabay trying to make a quick buck.
What do you mean? I don't want to buy any. In fact, I am going to sell all of my Canadian collection. I just saw that item as I was researching pricing trends. I found it humorous that the seller says how rare and awesome it is, but he was lucky enough to get 3 of them. haha
Actually, it is a mule. A friend of mine discovered it and after a lot of controversy it was determined to be an obverse of a 2010 specimen and a reverse of a 2009 specimen. There are only about 300 mules from the 15,000 sets. In the Canadian Coin News: http://www.canadiancoinnews.ca/article.html#features Eating a bit of crow As reported elsewhere in this issue, the Royal Canadian Mint has come clean on the 2010 young lynx Specimen set mule, and it turns out that I was wrong. I've never believed that being wrong always represents an opportunity for personal growth. Sometimes you're just plain wrong. In this case, we've done what I think is the right thing: admit our mistake, set the record straight, and move forward. There is a lesson to be learned here, however. We originally ran this story months ago, then as new information became available, we did a second, and now a third article. As the author of each article, I used the best information I could get, and relied on expert sources. Eventually, what we got was exactly what we wanted, a clear description of what went wrong and how. That makes us all winners. In this case, none of the updated information has altered the number or value of the error coins. It was always a mule. The confusion was in the origin of the 2009 die.
