1981 over 1982

[jcuve]

Mexican 20 centavos overdate (class III) with a 1981 hub over a 1982 hub.

[Petespockets55]

Unbelievably awesome.

[VAB2013]

OMG wish those mint workers would move to Philly very nice mistake! Congrats on another cool bay find!

[GrumpyEd]

In 1982 Mexico defaulted on debt, then the currency started to devalue faster, I think later they did something like a reverse split 10-1 or 100-1 devaluation.
I wonder if that was a reason why in 82 they might have been making coins worth less than the effort to make them, I wonder if that explains this mistake.

[Petespockets55]

At least two scenarios I can think of.

1) Take a 1982 die and pull a "Back to the Future " to 1981. Late production of 1981 they ran short of dies to complete their quota? What's a mint official to do to do. Take one already completed for 1982 and hub it with a 1981 date?

2)Or..... in 1982, take a left over die from 1981, and hub (much lighter) with the 1982 working hub. I think this might produce an effect where the 1981 looked stronger on the coins.

However it happened, this is one neat looking coin.

[makecents]

That is very cool looking!! Maybe the mint worker at the time was just very confused as to what year it was!

[uglycent]

I love that over date. I wonder how many exist if the currency valuation was changed and the old coins were demonetized?

[Sheila ruley]

Wow!! That is awesome! Congrats!

[WaterSport]

If they had a bad economic situation I would think they needed to save money at the mint, thus -reuse the dies anyway possible. JMHO.

WS

[Petespockets55]

If they had a bad economic situation I would think they needed to save money at the mint, thus -reuse the dies anyway possible. JMHO.

WS

I agree but wouldn't you expect it to be 1982/1981 ( most recent year over older year)
not as this one looks, 1981/1982.
Very neat doubling.