Mute - A 'silent' coin. Same as Anepigraphic.
Non Circulating Legal Tender - or NCLT. A coin struck by the national issuing authority mainly to be sold to collectors. The coins also have a face value and can be spent in the country of issue.
The story goes that a deaf-mute gold-plated these unfamiliar coins and would buy something for a nickel or less.
A typical specimen of a mute Italian jeton of the 13th century, probably issued by a Lombardic banker. Most of these jetons have a border of pellets or bezants. 16. The earliest datable French counter struck for queen Blanche (1200-1252). Obv.
The most famous criminal case about altered 5 cent coins involved a deaf mute named Josh Tatum. He would go to cigar stands and purchase a 5c cigar and pay with a gold plated, hand reeded nickel.
According to legend, a deaf-mute person named Josh Tatum was the chief perpetrator of this fraud, and he could not be convicted because he simply gave the coins in payment for purchases of less than five cents, ...
Legend has it that a deaf-mute gold-plated these unfamiliar coins and would use them as legal tender. Sometimes, he was given change for a five-dollar gold piece since the V on the reverse could be interpreted as either five cents or five dollars! ...
An old piece of paper, dirty, torn and showing much wear, has recently come to light. Unknown to many of the past generation and totally so to the present, it bears mute evidence of one of the means employed to secure funds when this nation was in ...
Tatum is that he was a deaf-mute, and could not ask for any change, or tell the vendor that he had made a mistake. He was exonerated for the most part. One story says he walked out of court a free man.
Of his life or theirs we know but little; Syracuse was happy enough in his reign of half a century to leave almost no history, no record of conquest, disaster, or rebellion; but to me this mute witness, by a coin nearly twenty-two centuries old, ...
 See also: Revers, Reverse, Gold, Collector, Coin
  
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