Numlock News: January 6, 2021 • Luigi, Planet, War of the Worlds
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By Walt Hickey Tripods A new £2 coin from the U.K.’s Royal Mint commemorating H.G. Wells has been released with multiple errors, eagle-eyed Wells fans say. First of all, the gigantic Martian walking machine on the back of the coin has four mechanical legs, which is one extra leg for the vehicles described unambiguously as tripods. A second error, one featuring The Invisible Man, from some book whose title momentarily escapes me, depicts him wearing the wrong kind of hat, a top hat, not the wide-brimmed one described in the book. It’s the most egregious scandal in the field of British literary numismatics since the coin commemorating Mary Shelley had the face of a monster labeled “Frankenstein” and the other side was merely a speech bubble where the creature says, “Frankenstein is my name, because I am the monster in the book
Numlock News: January 6, 2021 • Luigi, Planet, War of the Worlds
Numlock News: January 6, 2021 • Luigi…
Numlock News: January 6, 2021 • Luigi, Planet, War of the Worlds
By Walt Hickey Tripods A new £2 coin from the U.K.’s Royal Mint commemorating H.G. Wells has been released with multiple errors, eagle-eyed Wells fans say. First of all, the gigantic Martian walking machine on the back of the coin has four mechanical legs, which is one extra leg for the vehicles described unambiguously as tripods. A second error, one featuring The Invisible Man, from some book whose title momentarily escapes me, depicts him wearing the wrong kind of hat, a top hat, not the wide-brimmed one described in the book. It’s the most egregious scandal in the field of British literary numismatics since the coin commemorating Mary Shelley had the face of a monster labeled “Frankenstein” and the other side was merely a speech bubble where the creature says, “Frankenstein is my name, because I am the monster in the book