Obverse Die Cap Error....on Ebay

Jon Sullivan has been running quite a few of these really dramatic multi-coin errors. Very doubtful this was made intentionally. That's virtually impossible on the modern high-speed presses. However, when I was at the Philly Mint in 1998 and stopped by a tub of struck cents that had not been passed through the riddler yet, you could have picked errors out of it, including many exotic ones from the top of the pile for as fast as you could move for who knows how long. The tub is large and cents are small so that doesn't mean the majority of cents were mistruck but that if you stood there and tried to count them all that were on the surface, you'd loose track of the count before you finished. It was amazing, the number of them and diversity. I asked the guard what would happen if I reached in and put one in my pocket and he responded with, why not give it a try and see what happens, and laughed.
Anyway, no need to make something like Sullivan's coin on purpose. They are already there.
If only they would have told us (John Wexler, Arnie Margolis, Bill Gibbs and Victoria Stone) to have at it and take all we could grab in one minute!