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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 5400370, member: 89514&quot;]My answer to a similar question on Forum in 2012:</p><p><br /></p><p>The term &quot;<a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hybrid" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Hybrid" rel="nofollow">hybrid</a>&quot; has become tainted in my mind, because so many of the coins so described in the earlier <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ric" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ric" rel="nofollow">RIC</a> volumes and in <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=roman%20silver%20coins" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=roman%20silver%20coins" rel="nofollow">Roman Silver Coins</a> are nothing but <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ancient%20counterfeits" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=ancient%20counterfeits" rel="nofollow">ancient counterfeits</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore I prefer to say &quot;<a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=mule" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=mule" rel="nofollow">mule</a>&quot; for coins struck at the <a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=Mint%20Marks" rel="nofollow">mint</a> from mismatched official dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>The distinction official/unofficial is crucial. Official <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=mules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=mules" rel="nofollow">mules</a> are for the most <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" rel="nofollow">part</a> very <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" rel="nofollow">rare</a>, and interesting as error coins and for showing a chronological connection between dies that we otherwise wouldn&#039;t have known were in use at the same time.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unofficial hybrids are very common and teach us nothing about the chronology of the official coinage.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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