This is a 1972 UNICEF commemorative coin face value 5 qurush (piasters) قروش reverse top arabic republic of egypt جمهورية مصر العربية gomhuriyyet masr al arabiyya. obverse mother carrying a child, Unicef in arabic يونيسيف the leaves probably wheat? the error is easy to find
@steve.e lol. it was the easiest pit of the coin to understand least to say 500k pieces produced and then the majority were withdrawn and destroyed after the mistake was discovered. well, at least UNICEF didn't make a fuss
Very cool. I love when the error is actually in the design of the coin! I'll need to get me one of these. Here's the only one I have off the top of my head, where the design is the actual error (ignoring the rotation error, and the DDO of course).
@Seattlite86 is the circle on the obverse a mirror or a magnifying lens. I can see inside the circle, illuminated sun, some mammal probably a goat (?) and a pyramid shape. if it is a pyramid with a sun on top it is something something
The circle is actually a shield from their coat of arms. The animal is an alpaca (national animal) and the tree is a palm tree (I admit I googled this). The error, if it isn't quite clear, is that it says "Medio Boliviano" but then the value is "20 Centavos" 20 cents is not half a Bolivar, that would be 50 cents.
the alpaca looks like a hybrid animal, it looks like a mixture of camel, goat, sheep and lama)) when this coin was in circulation in such case was it of 50 cents or 20 cents value? tricky, ain't it?
Well, as it turned out, the coin is actually a pattern coin and should not have made it to circulation. I'm truthfully not even sure how I came across it. I think it wound up in a bunch of bulk world coins I purchased and sorted.
