Error date on Indian coin 20 paise 1983/4. Collector from India please help.

Hi Numista BRO. I found coin with error, but didn't found any info on Krause catalog. I seen that some error date coins(for example Belgium 1905/4 date and many other error) choose as separate date, but I never seen error date for India coins. Sorry,  most of indian coins minted with error date? Especially my question for Indian collector. May be you  have your local catalog for type of error. Help please. I think with type of error should be including to Krause or other catalog as separate date(same as for belgium). Thanks, Rus-1975.

Here is my opinion, a worker had his fun in Hyderabad?

It is not a fun, for workers responsible Mint. This type of coins sent for circulation and checked by Authorised personnel. No one worker in World mint not able to out mint gate with coins produce him.

Indian coins are strewn with errors left, right and centre. Their quality control is pretty lax as they produce them by the billions. Maybe there is a 3 over 4 error already recorded (I cannot help with that) but I understand what Sjoelund is saying, how can a future date number (4) be under the present date number (3)? It is not as if it comes from 1974 because the coin only starting minting in 1982, as for your belief that it should be recorded in Krause as such like other overdate examples, that is something you need to address with them.

Sjoelund was kind enough to produce an info graphic for you that at least might be able to be added to the Numista page, with an explanation of why it might have happened, but you didn’t seem to like his explanation - so maybe he won’t add it to the page after all. Sometimes other examples are needed to validate adding such info.

 Maybe in December 1983 the mint had already started in making coins for the next year - 

then someone decided they might still need a few more for 1983 so a few 

thousand of the now-minted 1984 coins were re-stamped - as a cheaper alternative 

than having them melted and starting again. Who knows? 

I would say that Zak could be right 

I will agree with ZacUk, but it real coins and should be added to catalog, no any difference between Belgium or India, all should be equality. Colony time has past. I will try to found Indian collector for proper reply my question.

Let's get the proper reference posted so this doesn't get rehashed 3 years from now.

N#1635

Also, it shouldn't be referred to as an “error date.” The mint did it on purpose.

Rus-1975

I will agree with ZacUk, but it real coins and should be added to catalog, no any difference between Belgium or India, all should be equality. Colony time has past. I will try to found Indian collector for proper reply my question.

What does this coin have to do with Belgium? Or the past colonial time!?

If you are referring to your first comment „like Belgium example 1904/05“ this is irrelevant because many examples of this overdate were seen as it was a mint error thus many were produced - leaving an obvious and easy recording of this coin in SCWC. Likewise coins in copper / bronze / silver from the end of the 1800s - beginning of 1900s with lower mintages are more desirable than Aluminium / steel / etc that modern coins are produced from in the billions. Your coin is a modern, more common, less desirable material, so far unconfirmed mint mistake / error, which isn’t sought after like older coins. So proclaiming equality between the two is wishful thinking, because the desirability does not match up and is in no way equal.

That being said, I think this coin is a brilliant example of an overdate (however it came into existence) and I do like Indian and Aluminium coins, so maybe in 120 years when coins are no longer minted for daily transactions, it will become more desirable and might have made it into a catalogue. 

Only bla bla… Nothing, I waiting Indian collector.