Riddle Me This

I preface this by stating very frankly...... I am not an errors guy. Yesterday we had a very esteemed member of the forum being treated quite rudely by a new member. As an aside I wanted to go see what his offerings were. Again, I am not an errors guy but certainly found the pieces on his website very interesting....... One piece though just absolutely befuddles me. It is a PCGS certified cent mechanically bonded to a screw..... Now most of the errors we see here are easily explained as we know there is simply no way the mint can create the error. How in the ever loving dickens can the mint allow a piece of hardware to become mechanically bonded to a cent? If I saw that cent on this board I would be the first to pass it off as something created in a welders garage. But it is real. And it is certified as real. How does that happen?

 

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with a little late night help at the mint...

 

Certainly is perplexing ...

 

I just looked it up and found it. Now, THAT is weird. No clue how something like that could happen.

 

Bears repeating...

 

@Randy Abercrombie
Here is a thread in the same Cent
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/this-lincoln-got-totally-screwed-literally-amazing-error.314963/

With some other metalic objects I posted

 

Sorta like the dime struck on a nail. I believe it was slabbed by PCGS.

 

Yes..
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/the-10-000-dollar-modern-dime-error-struck-on-nail-2.272486/

 

Ah yes. I thought I read that one here.

 

Just.... Wow..... I simply cannot begin to fathom how this or the dime could happen. Then escape into the wild. Sorry I missed your thread on the cent before I posted this one.

 

Fake
Made in China versions - suckers!

@Randy Abercrombie

 

Gotta try that! Maybe I'll start with marshmallows first.

 

Now that's something you just don't see too often, if ever.

 

Maybe a screw holding the collar fell off of the press onto the planchet and then struck. The cent was broad struck due to the collar falling out of the press. It was dumped into the bag, and the bag was sent to NF String (or another company) to be rolled. When the coin jammed up the works, an employee grabbed it and put it in their pocket.

 

It is funny how the Chinese counterfeiters can never get any coins' portrait right.

 

That Cent w/the Screw is my coin.

It was made at the San Francisco Mint,
and obviously it was made by having
someone place the screw into the press
on top of the planchet.

I've also handled most of the known
genuine Nails, (first in 1977, latest in
the past year), and those Chinese fakes
are easy to tell.

 

Don't forget the coin struck in sandpaper!!!

 

Cool...so, if you work at the mint, you can make your own errors? Lol.

 

This is a scenario I can certainly buy into. Having never seen the machines at work I can only imagine they are stamping at a furious pace to produce the billions that reach circulation. I still say though..... If I saw this as being posted by a member, I would immediately call bluff and blame it on a bored welder.

 

Yep. Made to order. There is a long history of Philadelphia dealers having "unique" errors, trial pieces, patterns, 1933 Double eagles, etc. Maybe it is just a coincidence......