£2 Coin Spelling Mistake
In 2005 the Royal Mint incorrectly spelled the word ‘Remember’ on a batch of £2 coins made to mark the anniversary of the Gunpowder plot.
The error remained officially unnoticed until 2010 when a man in Suffolk (Mr Albi Pinnion) noticed the mistake while at a pub. More have since been found and they now fetch around £10 on eBay among coin collectors.
Mr Pinnion has also found several other coins with different spelling mistakes on them, for a more detailed article on this, see Small World’s post.
Not all of what was said to the papers was put in them and some details were incorrect. The ‘pemember’ coins fall into four categories: single ‘pemember’, double ‘pemember’, ‘pemember pemember’ and ‘novembep’, and ‘novembep’. The ‘shoulders of giants’ have many errors, one being ‘gant’ (the i missing). There are many errors, mostly with downward stroke letters: on the 1999 rugby £2 the ‘1’ is missing on some coins, reading ‘999’. On the Brunel ‘two pounds’ on the coin is half missing.
There are too many to mention. Royal Mint denied all to our local paper saying it was wear and refused to acknowledge two letters and two emails, so it was left to the nationals to get them to admit the errors (which they did the next day). I still have not heard from them, but I guess I aint their favourite person at the moment. If they at least acknowledged my letters it would not have been in the nationals, a lesson all large companies would do well to take heed.
Albi Pinnion