https://www.coinworld.com/news/us-c...ies-two-tailed-washington-quarter-dollar.html How could such a coin be created by the Mint without human intervention?
"These Are Real Coins" Don't you love the shady fine line they walk. They were no longer real coins once they were tampered with. "These Were Real Coins" would be more appropriate, but then they would not sell so well.
Got to be ghost shift. Once the suits go home all kinds of things that shouldn't happen do. It's all fun and games until somebody breaks a multi-million dollar press....
Illegal coin. Manufactured illegally, intentionally not accidentally. Was not found in circulation. Not a mint issue. Should have been confiscated and destroyed.
Without a date it would probably not be possible to identify the shift foreman. I wonder if PCGS charged the regular cert price or if it was inflated ? We push so much for education in the minting process, we forget real life: "Its not what you know but who you know!" I personally would be ashamed to own it, and even more so if I were PCGS for grading it. " Mint Error" my ....
I agree with you all not mint errors. I feel the same about the five 1913 Liberty head nickels that somehow were producted in error and wound up in the hands of a stock broker if memory serves me well. Not what you know but who.