1894-95 20-centesimi confusion?

[villa66]

Has anyone here heard or read of any confusion (or cross-border circulation) involving these two?

 

 

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[luke_idk]

Never heard anything about that

[gcs]

Actually they seems to be similar where is the value. Do you have any link to this story?

[villa66]

This is just my own speculation. I was hoping to learn whether there might be any truth in it.

On a German coin forum I sometimes visit, a collector had acquired an old and massive hoard of 5- and 10-pfennig pieces from Imperial times. There seems to be a chance that the hoard was accumulated directly (or nearly so) from circulation, so I was very interested in the few foreign coins that had made it into the group.

One of them was a 20-centesimi of the 1894-95 type, but given its condition--and its surroundings--I thought for maybe two seconds that I was looking at a copper-nickel 20-pfennig. My mistake made me wonder if these two contemporaries might have been confused (or mis-used) for one another in their own time.

I also put the question here (in mirror image) on the German forum, but as yet have had no positive replies.

Sorry the news isn't more interesting....

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