It is a numismatists’ dream come true. The Chilean mint has issued thousands of 50-peso coins with Chile misspelled as C-H-I-I-E instead of C-H-I-L-E. The manager of the Chilean mint has been dismissed.
While worth only about ten cents in face value, these coins are already valuable collectors’ items worth far more.
The mint has been hit with a series of blunders recently including selling valuable coins to collectors against standing policies.
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I GOT THAT COIN 50 PESOS “CHIIE” 2008 , IT IS LISTED HERE :
CHILE COINS
Are you serious?
How do you….
Never mind.
LOL i used this for my school project on chile my dad collects coins and saw this and you should’ve seen his FACE!!!!
But seriously…. HOW DO YOU MISSPELL CHILE AS CHIIE?!?!
dats all folkz.
How can i got those coins?
arya_vivaindonesie@yahoo.co.id
How can i got those coins?
I have many of these coins
Jajajaja
.. and i have one of this. Its very hilarious the mistaked coin.
I think on the day i want to sell it —
http://mauriciobertero.espacioblog.com/post/2010/02/12/el-peso-la-discordia
I found a 1955 “double die” penny as a kid, but was glad it still worked when I used it for some gum.
Found out about 10 yrs later it was worth its weight in gold.
Thank you eniobob.
AY:
I don’t want to get off topic here,but I remember when this thing went down in Hati with the children and the church workers you said you were interested in what was going on.
I came across this which you may or may not be interested in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/world/americas/12haiti.html?hp
What hasn’t been widely circulated is that the mint manager was also fired from his other job as a publicist for restaurant chain Chili’s.
Stay in school, childrens!
Proper spelling could save your job some day.
I found a better image for this coin. Kind of reminds me of that Bi-Plane stamp that was used in the 04 election in Florida. The Jenny that was subsequently found to have been a counterfeit.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://images03.olx.cl/ui/3/81/55/62307655_1-vendo-Monedas-de-50-de-Chiie-.jpg&imgrefurl=http://sanjoaquin.olx.cl/vendo-monedas-de-50-de-chiie-iid-62307655&usg=__lpegSA1mg6fDizLzh4Z_UsCd2OA=&h=420&w=602&sz=38&hl=en&start=16&sig2=r_cOKsxtA1k4gJotoy3TPg&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=sY627yawjFmsiM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchiie%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-US:official%26sa%3DX%26um%3D1&ei=2Vt1S-GfOoS0tgfz79CACg
Thanks AY, I will add it.