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This is one of those catalogue errors (like 1854 half sovereigns?) that has persisted through the years - I guess it was originally catalogued either in error or assumption, and then subsequent cataloguers have just "borrowed" the information. Goodness knows how they arrived at rarities and values ("based on realised prices at auction" or similar when a specimen had never actually been recorded!!). It was in the old ESC, EMC and Seaby catalogues, and I think even in some of the Spinks when they took over publication, though now corrected there and by Bull. A genuine mule would be an impossibility as the arcs and the date are on the same obverse side, though I grant that a 33 arc die might just have been prepared and then discarded, and so it is just conceivable effectively a "pattern" or two might just exist, though the absence of a recorded example these last 130-odd years would suggest not. Happy to be proved wrong, though! Here's a shot of some blurb from the Coincraft catalogue of 2002. The Dickinson referred to is "Victorian Godless and Gothic Florins", SCMB 1978/1980 (Seaby Coin and Medal Bulletin) but I don't have a copy of those. Does any member have, and can they post screenshots? Ironic then that they kept it in their catalogue for many years afterwards!

Yes it is a terrible condition but whatever happens she will forever be loved

No the Austro Hungarian empire was always quite large covering most of the Balkans as well I think they then invaded parts of poland I think ??/could be wrong in the 18th and continued a powerful seat with a few revolutions in the 19th C . It was the seat of the Holy Roman Empire with the Habsburgs from the 14th C . and after the war the multiple principalities of Germany and Prussia were broken up I think. I am sure it all got a bit confusing during the Napoleonic wars. Not helped earlier I am sure by the cutting the head of Marie Antoinette an austrian archduchess.

Nearly all Heatons. The book is based on them. It's a good read, although the latter two thirds I've not really bothered with as it's all about the Heaton coinage issues, most of which are foreign. The book is "A numismatic history of the the Birmingham Mint" by James O' Sweeny, published in 1981, by - would you believe - The Birmingham Mint !!! Although printed by Pardy & Son of Ringwood, Hants.