See finger mashed in coining press

Now that’s a new conspiracy theory. Wow!

 

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My conspiracy/suggestion could save the Mint hundreds of thousands of dollars. If a Mint employee submitted a suggestion, saving the Mint/Gov't thousands of dollars and the suggestion was adopted, that employee would receive (what they call) a suggestion award = $$$$.

We all know mint management monitors this forum.

So mint management should send me one of those anomalies/errors as compensation for saving them (the gov't) thousands of dollars! It's called a civilian suggestion award. They can keep the cash. I'll take one of those man-made errors!

 

At $3,600 you can have a gold aurus coin featuring an early Roman emperor such as Nero or Vespasian... Or you can have that piece of machinery with the quarter struck to it. I know which one I would choose.... Give me the 2000 year old gold coin any day.

 

This is one of the reasons even if I was rich and could afford such similar "errors" I would not buy and perpetuate further "errors" from the mint. I prefer something that is reasonably possible.

 

If you condone corruption, you encourage corruption.

 

Tossed in the scrap as a broken part and sold as scrap by the GSA. Then recovered by whoever bought the scrap.

 

They're like a soft flexible rubber material. Going to take quite the eccentric individual to want that.

 

The softer they are the more likely a punch was used. Drill bits and hole saws can twist and deform soft materials and leave a ragged edge. I have a set of hole punches in my shop that we use on rubber and soft plastic sheet material. Range in diameter from 3-50 mm in small increments. Quick to use and do a great job. We've used the large sizes on material up to 5 mm thick and small sizes on material up to 15 mm thick. Pic below gives some idea of what they're like. My main set has more intermediate sizes. I also have a set of smaller diameter punches designed for thicker material.

Cal

 

It sold for $15,600! A bargain! Don't you wish you'd bid?

Cal