1 Crown - Elizabeth II Coronation - Mule Issue

The "mule" designation here is the key detail. This piece pairs dies that were not originally intended for use together — a known production anomaly from the Pobjoy Mint, which struck issues for numerous small British territories during this period and occasionally combined obverse and reverse dies from different intended strikings. Ascension Island had no permanent indigenous population and no domestic monetary tradition; its coinage series exists entirely as a collector construct administered through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

KM#2 mule examples are scarce relative to the standard issue, with limited documentation on the precise die pairing responsible.