I'll start by saying this is not mine, nor is it in my possession. I simply got to look at it one day when I had gone to the LCS. This was last summer (August 20, 2024 from the camera roll date) and I was just looking through the shop's inventory when a fellow came in and started talking with the owner. Now, I typically try my best to not eavesdrop other conversations, but when the owner says something like "wow, this is crazy" then I can't help but turn my ear a bit. As they were discussing the coin (and other non-error coins he brought in) the owner brought me into the conversation by asking if I had ever seen anything like this before. Naturally, I obliged him and joined in. I forget a lot of the small talk about it, and had mostly forgotten about this coin until just a few minutes ago when I saw someone post something similar on Reddit. I just wanted to share the pictures here because I'll likely forget about it again soon! Sorry for the glare and lower quality pics. It's all I've got of it, so hopefully you can see it well enough!
It's the elusive 11 cent coin. There are many of them out there, dealers always ask a small fortune for them, well more than I am willing to pay. I would call it an assisted error, the question is how did a newly minted 1994 Dime get into a hopper full of Lincoln blanks?
Some bored mint employees? Maybe someone who didn't like their job and was experimenting in ways to get fired? Lol!
Coin, blanks, and planchets often get stuck in the rolling bins the mint uses to move items around the mint floor (I think they are cloth bins). They get released eventually and find their way into dies made for different coins.
That's definitely not the holy Grail of errors There are some that are totally more extreme than that.
Definitely a dime and a cent minted together on a cent planchet. I tend to think it’s a mint assisted error. Sealed pallets of blank planchets are placed on top of the machine and a conveyor transports the minted coins to where they are packaged for use.
Ok, so obviously (edit to add) not "The Holy Grail" of errors and, admittedly, and assisted error. But... how many times have you seen one, like physically seen in-person? Do you happen to have one in your collection? I wish I could have one, but it's something that seems to be a far way off. If this is not a Grail error coin, then what is for your own personal collection? Why do you want to have whatever Grail coin you desire? I like things like this because it's an oddity to me. I am not as seasoned as many others here are, so my knowledge is still limited. I'd love to hear what interests you with particular errors. Let 'er rip and enlighten me, please!
I can see a careless employee doing that.. Just figured there would be better quality control at the mint. I get the guy getting hollered at being told just get me a bin any bin. Back to that coin. It would be interesting to do a die study, @SensibleSal66 Link above with the mule shows the different sizes of die face. The centered Lincoln on a dime sized planchet is impossible. I have seen a few in person. None of them, screamed buy me. Here is an old link to a double denomination. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/double-denomination.234731/
I am still not buying the Lincoln on a Roosevelt. I probably should have bought the 1999 in a Segs slab, when I had the chance. Maybe it was a 96'D.
