I have a question that I can't find the answer to anywhere? How are error coins found of it didn't come in a coin roll or in a mint set. For instance a 1966 double struck penny looks like it wouldn't fit in a coin roll. So how is it found without being in a coin roll? I'm confused as to how they find error coins that aren't in circulation. Any help would be appreciated!!!
A lot of them were smuggled out of the mint - in San Francisco they used the oil pan of the forklift.
Do you have a picture of it? Not all coins are distributed in Rolls. You can acquire bags of every denomination. I once purchased 20 Broadstruck Dimes that were found in a Mint Sewn bag. They wouldn't fit into a roll. The Dimes somehow escaped from quality control at the US Mint and ended up in the bag. I sent one to NGC for Attribution
Found directly from mint sewn bags that people buy and search through for mint errors. Just as paddyman98 said. This is also why a lot of error coins are found in uncirculated / mint condition. Even some of the singularly struck coins do not fit in rolls.
Bags of coin dumped into the machines that roll the coins, then the error coins jam the machine and easily picked out by the operator.
Today, there are two screeings... at mint before dropping into the balistic nylon bags and at the contracted coin terminals when they are counted and wrapped. That's for circulation coins. Before the CCTs some coins were wrapped at the mint. Todsy the mint also wraps coins for collector rolls. The mint uses a riddler to screen for coins that are too small or too large. It has two vibrating screens, one just smaller than the coin is supposed to be and one just larger. But coins can fall into the good zone (the middle layer) as long as one dimension can pass. Thus double struck coins aren't always caught. Never-the-les, the more exotic the "error" the more likely there were helping hands involved... There is no way an 1898 gold piece just happened to get overstruck by a 1970s quarter without help. https://minterrornews.com/ issue 66...
That's very interesting. You got me on that one and now I have to dive down the rabbit hole. Thank you¢¢¢
This is one of the oil pan coins in the 1970s there’s a bunch of people at the San Francisco mint could create intentional errors. This point for example, each planchette had to be added one at a time, so it would it impossible not to notice that you were putting a penny planchette on a nickel die. I got this years ago. The best example is this an impossible error
Yeah so many are so fraudulent and such a crock of manure. These should be hunted and melted not 33 $20s
