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A couple of interesting deep die cap cents dated 1978.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Nice bottle caps  Most of the time when I see someone posting that they have a die cap, it is almost always a coin struck through a die cap but those two are rediculous  Do you have a vertical measurement on them? |
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Canada
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Very nice...and I know someone who wishes he had them.  |
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Zimmy, those are fantastic!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These capped die cents are wonderful and quite large from what I normally see. Wonder how those managed to make their way out of the mint.
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I too would like to know, how do these make it out of the mint. How do they make it through the automatic coin rolling machines?
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that's a good question tfred. I was wondering that myself :-)
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Here is a side view compared to a regular cent. I am not sure how the Royal Canadian Mint does it but in the U.S., when production was behind schedule, freshly minted coins would bypass the riddlers/counters and will be weighed in bulk to determine mintages. At least that is what I was told.  |
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Canada
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I have never seen anything like that before. Those are really cool. Thanks for sharing.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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They must have been stuck to the die for awhile to stretch that far. Thanks again for sharing.
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They left the mint in bags of coins......or in a pocket of an employee.....
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They left the mint in bags of coins......or in a pocket of an employee..... dun dun dunnnn Honestly, those are really neat. I couldn't imagine how they could make it past the rolling machines though, but crazier things have happened |
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they were never in rolls? as stated above, either in Mint BAGS or a pocket......
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nicklesguy is correct. The RCM did use not use rolls in the 1970s to mid 1980s... Coins went out in bags. Interestingly, I have heard more than one person say that it was the minting facility in Hull (Quebec) that was responsible for the interesting errors in the 1970s and 1980s. Production probably meant more than QA/QC.
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