The $10,000 Dollar Modern Dime Error - Struck on Nail #2

Hi all,
Just found another interesting article about a US modern Dime struck on a nail. If you haven't read my post about the Cent struck on a nail then you would be as surprised as me that this has happened more than once.

Here is my first thread on this type of error - https://www.cointalk.com/threads/wood-carpenters-at-the-us-mint-they-nailed-it.264704/

Here is 1 image from the website (not mine)



I want to share this webpage with you - http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/...to-a-nail-is-headed-6709684.php#photo-9136151

Quote - "It is not the first coin printed onto a nail, however, said Fred Weinberg, a coin dealer considered one of the top experts in error coins. A few pennies in the late 1970s were struck onto nails. This dime/nail is undated, so there is no way to tell when the item was created. Weinberg said it is possible the dime/nail was made on purpose by a rogue Mint employee." closed quote

 

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@paddyman98

I wonder what happened to the retaining collar while it was being struck?

Chris

 

That would of left no room for a nail that large. Since this item was most likely mint employee assisted, it was not in place.

 

I thought about that, too, and I wondered if they have some sort of "manual override" to lock the collar down while operating the press at the same time.

Chris

 

dime nail = 10 penny nail ? Thought it was 3" !

 

Just shows, we can strike money on anything .

Eat your heart out world .. Lol ..................

 

Maybe we can strike our national debt on things like this to pay our bills ....

 

Just shows that P.T. Barnum was among America's wisest philosophers.

 

As long as someone will buy it, there will be someone in the mint to make it, some dealer to sell it " as if it was faintly possible it was a real error", and someone to feel they are special to win such an "error".

 

Can you spell ripoff?

 

Break out the morning popcorn! The nail is at 11k and endng today...

http://coins.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=51 793 794 791 1577 792 2088&chkNotSold=0&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=Nail

 

I like how Fred mentioned that it was probably done intentionally by a mint worker. Like how he got thousands of missing edge lettering presidential dollars?

 

Was that Fred who bought those from that mint worker that stole them? I didn't know that but should have figured it on assumption actually

 

Shame on PCGS for lowering themselves to such a level.

 

How has no one pointed that this "expert" used the word printed and pennies!!!!!

 

Without going back to the article, if you're talking about Fred his credentials are top notch and of the higest calibur. Must be an author using creative license

 

Personally, I think the mint should seize the nail from Heritage. After all it is not something that should have ever been made.

 

Current bid is $13,500. I suppose this proves something, though I hate to think of what it might be.

 

Current Bid: $13,500

waste

 

Santini, just proves there's no shortage of fish in our pond. If the feds don't confiscate this the mint workers will be putting every kind of junk in the presses....