£2 Coin Spelling Mistake
January 14th, 2011 Posted in Blog: writing, editing | 1 Comment »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.