| Author |
 Replies: 17 / Views: 2,088 |
Page 2 of 2
|
|
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
75048 Posts |
Come on! This error must of gotten help by a Mint employee to make it. I just think it's very hard to believe that it happened by "mistake".
Errers and Varietys.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
62064 Posts |
Possible. I've found images of a cent struck on a dollar planchet With both devices showing. (Mint assisted)  An employee was creating weird stuff and later got caught. |
|
Pillar of the Community
 United States
6514 Posts |
Back in the day I bet mint employees could get away with stuff like this. I'm sure that that's not the case anymore.
Still, you won't see an error like this on the market again anytime soon.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
Canada
5255 Posts |
|
|
Rest in Peace
United States
18456 Posts |
What if a guy at NGC were in cahoots with an employee from the mint ?   Not making any accusations against anyone . TG |
|
Rest in Peace
United States
17900 Posts |
No need to be in cahoots. Simply submit. The finalized could be one of many such experts.
I can't imagine this being an accident.
|
|
Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
It must have been an accident. If it were intentional it would have the date on it...  |
|
Moderator
 United States
189767 Posts |
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
717 Posts |
Amazing. I was probably done intentionally.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
17884 Posts |
Back in the late 60s early 70s there were a lot of "helped" proof errors coming out of San Francisco. This is almost certainly one of them. As such to me it's a novelty, not an error, and not worth much at all.
|
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
6514 Posts |
Wish I knew more about how planchets are handled and the layout of The Mint's equipment. What chain of events would have to occur in order for this type of an error to happen. I just have a hard time believing this happened without intent.
|
|
Bedrock of the Community
United States
75048 Posts |
Haha! If I worked for the U.S. Mint, I would be probably intentionally be making error coins. If it was back in the 1960's and 1970's, I would get away with it. I would try smuggling them out of the U.S. Mint and than sell them on Heritage Auctions. Errers and Varietys.
Edited by Errers and Varietys
04/24/2018 10:42 am
|
|
Moderator
United States
189767 Posts |
Quote:
As such to me it's a novelty, not an error, and not worth much at all. For anything but an Ike, Sure.  |
|
Pillar of the Community
United States
8715 Posts |
That ain't no "mistake". That looks like it was intentionally made.
|
|
Moderator
 Canada
10463 Posts |
There are several posts in this thread that make me see why new error collectors are hesitant to post their finds and questions. At no time did I solicit anyone's opinion on how this error was made, and how it escaped the mint. As an advanced error collector and someone who has published on error coins, seeing everyone calling this one while wearing your Captain Obvious hat is pointless... As an error collector, and with many off-metals in my collection, I simply wanted to point out something very rare, beautiful and cool... regardless of its intent and provenance... Most people don't realize that lots of eye-popping errors are not even made in the mints - engineers take handfuls of planchets overseas (mainly Germany) when purchasing and testing new mint equipment and presses, and those "test strikes" while not true errors, do escape to the collector market. So they were never even in the mint to start with - let alone snuck out... (an unnamed engineer at the Royal Canadian Mint shared that anecdote with me)... So yes, most of the wildest errors you see were not true accidents, but error collectors see this aspect of the hobby quite differently... When an error coin can make an error collector say "wow"... then it is something special... like this one... If I collected Ike dollar errors, this one would be my 'white whale'... "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
|
|
Page 2 of 2
|
Replies: 17 / Views: 2,088 |
Page 2 of 2
|
First Page
Posted 04/24/2018 01:19 am
