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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Siberian Man, post: 1695489, member: 22500&quot;]Bahama Mule - is the name of the rare coins which were released by the Royal Mint (London) in 1967. It was the period when the Royal Mint got many orders for production of coins for the British colonies and the countries of the British Commonwealth. At 1967 England and its colonies passed to new monetary system - that is why the Royal Mint was overloaded with orders for production of new coins: workers of a Mint were compelled to work overtime - they felt accruing fatigue from hard work. </p><p>One day there was a mistake: a workers made a coins for the Bahama Islands (it was a 5-cents&nbsp; from a copper-nickel alloy); then they forgot to remove the coining press...</p><p>A several hours after they started a making of a 2-cents bronzed coins for New Zealand... on the coining press with a caption &quot;Bahama Islands&quot;.&nbsp; And they produced 80000 coins with a &quot;normal&quot; reverse (the reverse of the standard New Zealand&#039;s 2-cents coin) and unnormal obverse (the obverse of the standard Bahama&#039;s 5-cents coin).</p><p>The director of a Royal Mint didn&#039;t notice this mistake and these coins were sent to New Zealand. Then a coins with the caption &quot;Bahama Islands&quot; and without the date &quot;1967&quot; arrived in NZ and were distributed in appeal. </p><p>And in that time an officials of the New Zealand&#039;s Treasury&nbsp; found a mistake at last. They are withdraw a 68000 coins (from the 80000 coins). Сollectors got the remained coins&nbsp; (from 6000 to 12000 coins only).</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has an own name - &quot;BAHAMA ISLANDS MULE&quot;. It is a rare coin with the unique mistake. I got it from my fellow from New Zealand today.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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