few hundred jefferson smooth edge found

did anyone else read the coin world article about the hoard of prez coin jefferson smooth edge ,it says their might be a few hundred ,wow that guy held out for a long time and boy o boy is he gunna make some bucks ...
im new but has any worker at the mint ever been caught stealing coins ..i am not saying that these coin are stolen .. I dont want to get in trouble ... just was thinking how much a person could make if he had worked at the mint ...well aledgely

 

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IMU:
In the old days you could have been right.
However, today, the workers supposedly (!?) are searched in some way to prevent this from happening.

 

Not so much searched as camara's are so cheap now-a-days. They have them everywhere.

 

A couple of years ago in Canberra, Australia, a mint worker smuggled some 150,000+ dollars of 2 dollars coins (no joke about the figure) outside using his modified boots. Obviously since then the Mint has changed it's procedures.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4882560.stm

 

Metal Detectors and cams is all that is needed plus on site police

You even have to go through a metal detector whlie entering the Mint

 

now if only they had quality control! LOL

grizz

 

its their job to stop US from stealing from them (The Mint) Not Them, (The Mint stealing from us)

 

lol when i read that i thought that you meant nickels

uhhh all of them are

 

Sounds like the toll booth worker they just caught recently. Bank employees thought it was suspicious that he deposited $1500-2000 in quarters every week.

Heck, I would have just assumed he was a coin roll hunter .

wrb

 

I believe they go through an area that weighs them coming in and compares it to their weight leaving. At least thats what they do where gold bullion is stored and in mine refineries.
Guy~

 

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to smuggle gold out of there if all they were doing was weighing people? I drink enough water at work each day to more than account for a few ounces gained..

 

Maybe you could pan the Mint's sewer line on Arch St. for Gold Nuggets:goofer::goof:

 

I don't know. I know a few people who worked at a smelter for a gold mining company and they said they walked through a doorway with a scale at the floor every day. One way in, one way out. Unless you plan on smuggling raw ore out, the only time gold is in smaller ingots than 140 lbs is when it's molten, and that wouldn't go too well down someones pants.
Guy~

 

Sensitive metal detectors. They are able to detect the fillings in your teeth, if you have had a pin inserted for a broken bone etc. and I'm sure they know how strong a reading they should get for each person and where those reading are concentrated. If your reading is different or changes, or if the reading area changes (especially if it changes from when you came in this morning) you had better be able to explain it and be ready for a more invasive search.

Now I'm not sure if they have gone to that extreme or not, but the technology to do so does exist. I do know of one person who was able to take a floor tour at the mint. They were told to remove all coins from their posession before the tour began and they had to go through a metal detectorat the end. The detector spotted a dime he had forgotten and left in his pocket. (He had to surrender the dime.)

 

THAT is hilarious !

 

I seem to remember one story from pre 1933 where a mint worker hid gold coins in the belly of a dead rat.
He then threw the rat out the window and later picked it up on his way home.

 

You have to wonder if he caught the rat inside the mint, or if he smuggled it in.

 

That's easy to beat. Bring lead weights, dump them, and then replace then with the gold.

 

Untill you came to work the next day and had lost 100 pounds.

 

Like I said, unless you're going to smuggle out raw ore, the smallest ingot you could get out would be 140 lbs. Thats quite a bulge to hide, and to lug around.
Guy~