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Interesting but not to the tune of £100 !

Yes- quite interesting...I have an 1880 with '0' in the usual place, but with the top of this high '0' still visible. but not that high '8'.......

It looks to me as though the die has suffered some degree of filling on the top cross bar on the E and the P as the central cross part on both letters is doubled , and that then an E and P have been re-punched slightly out of position over what was left of the old letters. Below is an example of a coin with the G in REG having partly filled and then re-punched incorrectly lower and well out of position , and still leaving the outline of the old G. Over stamps don't seem uncommon on early bronze coins , but if its a different letter or the same letter inverted or rotated through 90 deg , then it becomes much more collectable.

I am no expert, but i am thinking that the E over I is much rarer than the R over R. Nice coin. Mule though? Beaded both sides.

Freeman has them as R9, but I'd say they were scarcer than that.