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2 Europ Pattern; Isle of Man reverse mule
| Issuer | Jersey (British Crown dependencies) |
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| Year | 2006 |
| Type | Fantasy coin |
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| Obverse description | Bimetallic pattern piece with a brass centre and copper-nickel outer ring. The centre features a forward-facing draped bust of a female figure with short, loosely curled hair, rendered in high relief against a plain field. The legend ESSAI - PATTERN - PROBE arcs along the upper portion of the brass centre. The date 2006 appears in the lower field beneath the bust. The outer copper-nickel ring is decorated with twelve evenly spaced six-petalled flower ornaments. |
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| Reverse lettering | 2 EUROP© |
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This piece exists because of an administrative accident. Pattern dies for a proposed 2 Euro coin — never adopted, as Jersey has no path to Eurozone membership — were mistakenly paired with production dies from a Jersey circulation issue, creating an obverse/reverse mismatch that only came to light after a small number of pieces were struck. The Isle of Man reverse element compounds the error: a second jurisdiction's dies had entered the same minting sequence at Pobjoy Mint, which produced coinage for multiple Crown dependencies simultaneously.
Documented examples number in the dozens at most.