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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by cwb
07/16/2015 01:19 am
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Valued Member
United States
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Theres simply no way I can conceive of this leaving the mint without the help of an employee. Although I have never found any major mint errors, I can conceive that most may leave the mint without being noticed, but its coins like these that make me into more of a conspiracy theorist.
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't understand how something like this can be sold if a mint operator found the error in the mint. Shouldn't it have been destroyed?
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Valued Member
United States
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Exactly what the conspiracy theorists say. Especially when mint employees have been prosecuted in the past for removing error coins, it seems as though the mint actively looks for theft, but yet shouldnt something like this end up being pulled from sale and destroyed by the government?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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My bet is that it went out in a BAG of cents.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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From the description:
"The fused mass of cents remained in the die chamber and grew ever larger, until a press operator noticed the error."
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Valued Member
United States
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I am now recalling reading a story of someone who purchased an old mint press for their business, and upon doing some cleaning and maintenance discovered a few hundred error coins in the cracks and crevices, and quite a few blank planchets still loaded in the feed hopper. So perhaps theres a rare event I could imagine that this would make it into the world, but with your comment about the operator noticing pretty much says it was improperly put out there.
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Valued Member
United States
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I would think on presses that run at those speeds, the opening would not allow a mass this large.
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Pillar of the Community
Australia
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Without the "assistance" of a mint employee this would NEVER have made it out of the building  This is basically stolen property  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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In construction of homes I will occasionally , for the fun of it gather together a date set of the year the construction is happening and hide them where a remodeler will one day find them. Who's to say that press operator for the fun of it helped it into a bag
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Forum Dad
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I'm about 90% sure Fred Weinberg had this in his case at the winter FUN a few years ago.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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On the NGC forum I explained how something like this COULD leave the mint legally.
This is from the era before they waffled errors. It could have left as scrap with the rest of the scrap metal, chopped strip webbing etc. It was then recovered from the scrap by someone at the metal recycler. Typically the scrap is bought by the same companies that supply the mint with coinage strip but anyone can buy it in cluding other recyclers or even private individuals.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Before I clicked on your link cwb, I knew you were talking about a splash coin error. I too have wondered about that and thanks conder, that makes alot of cents  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It sure wins the "Holy Crap" award.
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Posted 07/16/2015 01:21 am
