I have been sitting on this one for a while, until my paper was published in Errorscope. Now that the journal has hit the press, I thought I would share some colour pics with you folks here. Thanks to the Canadian error collectors I know for helping decipher this coin, and thanks to Mike Diamond for his review and help. For those of you who are error enthusiasts, I would highly recommend joining CONECA.
nice piece you have here. congrats I saw a USA group a while back similar to your and there were what looked like a whole handful piled up and stuck together. the USA ones appear on Ebay every now and then. the last group I saw was three or four fused together. these happen during a malfunction at the mint.
Seems with all the modern tech we have today our mints sure turn out more and more goofs than the older run coin press. Are these mistakes or is this the mint its self adding errows to the coin world to get more into collecting and buying coins. Sure seems like with all the high tech machines we have we have more coins with mistakes than the coins from yesterday.
I suspect the press operator had some hand in the striking of this error. Also, our mints are now focused on quantity of coins struck, not quality of strike.
