{"id":268,"date":"2014-03-05T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T12:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.dev\/2014\/03\/05\/2014-minted-britannia-coin-minted-with-incorrect\/"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T11:36:09","slug":"2014-minted-britannia-coin-minted-with-incorrect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/blog\/2014-minted-britannia-coin-minted-with-incorrect\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Minted Britannia Coin minted with incorrect obverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/silver\/buy-silver-coins\/cgt-free-silver-coins\/british-1-oz-silver-britannia-2013-999-0.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"CGT Free Silver Britannia Coins\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2014 Britannia with erroneous obverse\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukbullion.com\/media\/wysiwyg\/blog-images\/Britiannia-2014.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silver Coin collectors are on the look out for 2014 Britannia and Lunar <em>Year of the Horse<\/em> coins, as the obverse side of each coin (depicting HM Queen Elizabeth II) was mixed up during manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>The Britannia coin is usually minted with small &lsquo;dentils&rsquo; around the edge of the obverse side, whilst the design for the Lunar Year of the Horse coin was not intended to have any. The mistake was made during the manufacturing process when the casts were mixed up, as both coins are struck to the same specification and fineness.<\/p>\n<p>To reassure collectors and investors, the Royal Mint issued a statement over the mix up saying: &ldquo;Some of our recent bullion customers may have noticed a slight change in the design of the edge decoration of our UK 2014 \u00a32 Britannia bullion coin, and the UK 2014 \u00a32 Lunar bullion coin&rdquo; and continuing with &ldquo;The quality and value of the coins remains the same.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><small>News source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coinworld.com\/news\/mule-britannia-error-versions-of-silver-2-coins-surface.all.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>coinworld.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Coin collectors are on the look out for 2014 Britannia and Lunar Year of the Horse coins, as the obverse side of each coin (depicting HM Queen Elizabeth II) was mixed up during manufacturing. The Britannia coin is usually minted with small &lsquo;dentils&rsquo; around the edge of the obverse side, whilst the design for the Lunar Year of the Horse coin was not intended to have any. The mistake was made during the manufacturing process when the casts were mixed up, as both coins are struck to the same specification and fineness. To reassure collectors and investors, the Royal Mint issued a statement over the mix up saying: &ldquo;Some of our recent bullion customers may have noticed a slight change in the design of the edge decoration of our UK 2014 \u00a32 Britannia bullion coin, and the UK 2014..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[273],"tags":[162,13,35,133,175,22],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>2014 Minted Britannia Coin minted with incorrect obverse - UKBullion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2014 Minted Britannia Coin minted with incorrect obverse - UKBullion Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Silver Coin collectors are on the look out for 2014 Britannia and Lunar Year of the Horse coins, as the obverse side of each coin (depicting HM Queen Elizabeth II) was mixed up during manufacturing. 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