Coolest Backdoor Jobs - Canada 25c 1969 Struck On 1967 Gold Sovereign

Mike Byers has a Canada 25c 1969 struck on 1963 gold sovereign for a cool $30,000 US

Mint sport.
If the mint employee had been found out, he would have been prosecuted.
Huge temptation for the employee to smuggle it out of the Mint, and sell it for a motza.

If Heritage or PCGS had it, the moral thing to do would have been to report it, and then let the lawyers figure it out, to their profit instead.

That happened with the 1933 Double Eagle.

Very unusual, a quirky twist, too bad the story behind it is unknown.

Remnants of the 1967 British gold sovereign can indeed be observed.
The 25c is dated 1969 or 2 years later.

Would this suggest in 1969 someone included a gold sovereign amongst standard planchets while Cdn 25c were being minted?

50 years later it's easy to assume all kinds of skullduggery occurred but in an era when policies and standards were certainly not ruling the day in the way they do now and the price of gold was insignificant - might it be possible that an innocent tourist from U.K. who was touring the mint have been involved?

Innocent? Seriously?

As we have seen with the gold puck trial, and the novel defence put on by the accused of the RCM basically allowing him to steal the pucks, the alarm did it's job, sent to hand wand still the alarm goes off and they let him leave, that's with today's tight security measures. I would not be surprised if the UK gold coin was a commissioned piece by a high RCM bigwig or simply a trial piece that an employee took home afterwards

In my opinion the quarters on Gold sovereigns , and all the other fantasy garbage from this 1967 to 1971 period is a total joke and is a small microcosm of how inept or corrupt the management and/ or the employees of the Ottawa Mint were during this period. I would not touch any of it with a ten foot pole. PCGS and others should be ashamed of themselves for perpetuating this material.

@ moxking .......you are kidding right? Comparing obvious fabricated RCM mint sport to a restrike of a classic US silver dollar. I will give you the 1913 Liberty nickels.
There is very little speculation on how a sovereign or a German 20 Mark magically turns into a Gold Canadian 25 cents. Here's how that worked...... mint employee went to local Bank of Nova Scotia in Ottawa , where you could buy any Gold coin you wanted as Canadians could legally buy and sell all they wanted. Reports to work on the late shift strikes a few here and there and oh my , they suddenly end up in the hands of one of the three or four major coin dealers in Canada at the time.
All the back door stuff from the late 1960s, early 1970s always came from the same three or four sources without exception.

Up until the early 70s the mint accepted custom orders including for example, Specimen Sets that were not offered for sale to the general public. It appears little or no records were kept in terms of mintage. I'd presume the majority were ordered by dealers for their customers.

Just curious, would you consider that a type of backdoor sale as well?