Denver mint was the mint were the 1st Sac with a letter rim. and now Denver minted Sac without the new rim type was found. My question is do you think a worker at the Denver mint is make the error to sell to the highest bidder????
I doubt it. I have read that it has happened before...but that would be a pretty serious infraction if it was caught. The worker would lose his job at least...and who knows what else would happen to him.
The Denver mint is known for fabulous quality in Lincoln's The Denver mint is known for fabulous quality in Lincoln's and most other denomination's also - just think about it for a second if you want or look at rolls from each mint - the quality at Denver is always superior. The die varieties are fewer also, much fewer. I think the Denver mint is run by contractors and not as the Philadelphia mint run exclusively by the Govt. Some one correct me if I'm wrong but I think that is correct. At least since about the 1980's the Dever mints quality is much better that Philly's.
I agree Denver minted coins are the best struck coins But you can't overlook the Big money errors that are being produced there. and they alway seam to endup at Fred W door
I totally agree with Jello on this one he makes a great point When you relize about mint errors were talking about major errros like capped die , mules ,saddle strikes,folded edge strike ,Chain strikes,ETC you never get these in circulation So how do these so called error dealers get them it makes you wonder what really goes on in the mint with individuals outside the mint to make the big bucks done intentionally at the mint a big racketerion game. I :secret: do think a mint worker would be involved if he new he could retire off intentional errors and sell an abudance of them outside the mint it makes sense to me. JC
The major errors are not being brought to the error dealers by mint workers, they mainly come from Brinks and armored car ompanies that receive the ballistic bag shipments from the Fed/Mint and then roll them. The errors are caught there and in the past employees would buy them at face value so things came out even and then they could take them with them. Recently the government has said that these errors that they found should be reurned to the Mint but I don't think a lot of stuff is being sent back to the mint. I think the "Brinks' employees are still buying them and putting them into the market.
I have toured the Denver Mint. The security that everyone - tourists and employees alike - must pass through to get out of the Mint puts TSA security at any airport to shame. No one is carrying errors out of the Mint that way. It ain't happening. Security cameras are everywhere inside the Mint. No matter where you are on the floor of the Mint you are being observed. (My tour guide would not answer my question - "How many people are watching these cameras?") The only place I can think of with more cameras per square foot is a Las Vegas casino. I know there are other ways to smuggle things out of the Mint. Several years ago there was a glut of dramatic error coins from the Denver Mint. Mint officials were baffled how many of these errors were making past their safeguards (e.g., riddlers that catch oversized pieces). After a long investigation it was discovered a Mint employee was dropping these error coins down the exhaust pipe of a forklift used inside the Mint. When the forklift was serviced (at an outside garage) his partner in crime (who worked at the garage) collected the error coins from the oil pan, cleaned them up and sold them. I don't think that little trick would work today.
