I mentioned these in my Long Beach show report thread(http://www.cointalk.com/t207447/), and just received the photos from Todd. Here are the two very cool error cents I bought for my collection from Fred Weinberg at the show. This is a stack of 25 blank planchets that got jammed and melded together in the tube that fed the coin press back in the 1960's. As far as known, this is the only stack like this to have "escaped" from the mint! This is a penny struck 5 times, and what is even better is that the reverse is also struck 5 times, and not unifaced!
Great grabs. Weinberg is the man, he actually will quit bidding in coins if he knows that they are for a personal collection. Not to many dealers would do that.
Here are Fred Weinberg's comments he posted on another thread regarding my penny stack: "The 'Stack O' Planchets' that Charmy now owns is the first anyone has ever seen of such an item - In the 1960's, at the old Error Club of Hollywood meetings, we would discuss the Minting Process, and based on a photo or two, speculated that the Tube that the planchets were fed into, before dropping down and being fed into the Feeder Fingers, would probably jam at some point - like coins do when they are struck as bonded coins. I believe that this was what was used for the older Bliss presses - and no one had ever seen, until now, such a Stack of planchets that jammed and bonded. The deal I bought had some nice mint errors, dated from 1964 to (mostly) 1979."
